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...hostages were released unharmed by 1 p.m. Friday, when negotiations with Governor Arch Moore brought the uprising to an end. But in the interim three prisoners were stabbed or strangled to death by fellow inmates who suspected them of serving as informants. Moore agreed to allow representatives of the rioters to air their grievances about living conditions in the penitentiary, which have improved little since a state circuit judge declared them unconstitutional in 1983. The Governor also promised amnesty for those who took part in the uprising--but not for anyone who participated in the murders. CHICAGO Redrawing the Political...
...grandson of engineers, "and stare at the tubes." Almost every machine, he says, is at some level a toy. "The concept of jauntiness is a quality lost completely in design. It is a wonderful quality. The horse and buggy had it." By jaunty he does not mean arch and joky. "I don't see anything toylike in Memphis," he says of the Italian school of wacky neokitsch furniture. "It would be interesting to give a Memphis piece to a child and see how funny he thought...
...second part, readers of the arch-serious Hours will be surprised to find themselves in a jittery, edgy, very contemporary mystery story about urban terrorism. And then, in another sharp turn, the third part takes us to a future Manhattan populated by lifelike androids and lizard-like aliens, refugees from another planet. (That section also features Cunningham's first-ever car chase.) What holds the disparate components of Specimen Days together is Cunningham's intense focus on New York City as a crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban...
Ranting has many styles, many purposes. Sometimes its only ambition is to vilify. Robert Burns once let fly at a critic in these terms: "Thou eunuch of language; thou butcher . . . thou arch-heretic in pronunciation, thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis . . . thou pimp of gender . . . thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax." On and on he went...
...interstate highway bridges were closed. Property damage in the Virginias alone is expected to exceed half a billion dollars. "You could see the loss in people's eyes and hear it in people's voices," said a West Virginia ambulance worker. Governors Charles S. Robb of Virginia and Arch Moore of West Virginia called out their National Guards to discourage looting and to aid in rescue and cleanup efforts. President Reagan later declared that large portions of two states, West Virginia and Virginia, were disaster areas. CALIFORNIA The Illegal Millionaire...