Word: armchairs
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...times it seems that almost everyone who has laced on climbing boots or set a spinnaker has written a book about the experience. Although reading such stuff can be fun, the armchair adventurer feels a certain guilty unease. At this very moment, for instance, while the reader's arteries are slowly clogging, alarmingly energetic people like David Horning are out there somewhere, training for races like the Alcatraz Challenge. This is a particularly gruesome example of the newly popular self-torture called the triathlon: a 1.5-mile swim in cold and swirling water from San Francisco's Alcatraz...
...That big old mahogany armchair is practically antique, but it still works. First used in 1890, it is the world's oldest and most prodigious electric chair: 695 convicted men and women died in its grip, nearly one a month for the better part of a century. For most of those years it was housed at Sing Sing, contributing to that place's hellhole notoriety. Now it squats on the fourth floor of Green Haven prison in New York...
...piling the sociological data to new heights. Rothman and Lichter do not add much to these conclusions. Moreover, when the authors take the Jewish theme to its extreme, intertwining it with their SDS caricatures of various "rebel" types, they settle into some dubious armchair psychoanalysis...
...table from a water boiler down the hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class, however, there is toilet paper, a genuine luxury...
First on the list of any armchair shopper should be a new armchair. The Hexhedon PC1 (Neiman-Marcus) may look like Darth Vader's helmet, but around the black leather reclining seat the sybaritic unit includes such accessories as a miniature Sony color TV, a stereo system with color transposer for both interior and exterior light shows, a "thermos faucet system" to supply a flow of beverages, a wireless telephone and "whisper" exhaust fans. Price: $32,000. If a desire to work should suddenly take hold, the relaxing executive can unsnap the 18-karat-gold clasps of a black...