Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mallory's permission. On the bathroom door Mallory has posted a sign: DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Of the two other rooms, one belongs to Michael and Michael's mother Eileen. The other is Mallory's bedroom, nearly filled by a low queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock radio has been fitted. Above the headboard on a yellow wall hangs a huge novelty $1,000 bill, with Mallory's face where Grover Cleveland's would be. Beside the bed is a phone with a lock on the dial. "They want...
...town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work of the year was not his feature flop Explorers but a spooky segment for The Twilight Zone called The Shadow Man, about a boy who discovers a sinister phantom living under his bed...
...county jails. By 1982 conditions had grown so bad that U.S. Judge L. Clure Morton declared the entire system unconstitutional because of overcrowding and poor recreational and health facilities. Alexander has proposed that Tennessee contract the privately run Corrections Corporation of America to build and operate two 500-bed prisons, a suggestion that has been shelved by skeptical legislators. Before recessing last week, however, the legislature made some progress on an omnibus reform bill that would help depopulate the state's prisons of less dangerous criminals. One tactic: parole hearings would be scheduled for convicts who had served...
...mythical history of Mexico City. In this novel Mexico's mythical past of rituals and sacrifices appears parallel with the present. In "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962), the story is narrated by the revolutionary turned opportunist of the book's title as he lies on his death bed. The story is told by multiple voices with a constantly shifting narrative and chronological viewpoint...
...stood next to my bed, glanced at my cleats and glove and bat and tried to figure out where to fit them...