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...word of that, but neither did I have any inkling of the magnitude of the campaign being mounted for my release. The treatments continued. However, once the exercises and massages were finished, I still had to use my wheelchair to return to my cell or to go to the bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Castro's Prisons | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...checked into a large, state-run hospital in Tokyo to have a thyroid tumor removed. She was able to get a semiprivate room. The sheets were changed only once a week and the bath and toilet were down the hall. Her sharpest recollection: "I hated to go to the bathroom. Scores of cockroaches were clustered there at night." Still, she said, "the care was excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prognosis: Steady Improvement | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...many encounters making Blue Pastoral a mocking survey of contemporary writing as well. The selections include a poor translation of Les Mauvaises Herbes, pamphlets on staying in shape through winter gardening, a prototypical grant proposal, a senator's speech and some unforgettable graffiti read from a service station's bathroom wall...

Author: By Deborah J. Franklin, | Title: Hangover Time | 7/26/1983 | See Source »

Plain generic packaging started sweeping through U.S. food chains five years ago. The result was lower prices for many standard items, ranging from bathroom tissue to light bulbs. Now some supermarkets are going generics one better: no packaging at all. They are offering foodstuffs in bulk; buyers pour from vats or scoop out from bins the amounts they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying in Bulk | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...looking novel, the author's first, summons up scenes of middle-aged women huddling over coffee across a kitchen table, talking in murmurs not always audible. It recalls the memorable time when Katie, who must have been about ten, wriggled under the stall door at the railway station bathroom. "Anne tried to pull her back, then went after her, only she was heavier and got stuck halfway and Katie was kicking her shoulder. When Jenny came with the dime, they couldn't get the door open, with Anne wedged under it, Katie still shoving her with her feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Group Portrait | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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