Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion rocked his bedroom, and black Comedian Richard Pryor was engulfed in flames. Hearing his screams, his maid summoned his aunt Jenny, who rushed to his room and smothered the blaze with bedclothes. In shock, Pryor bolted from the house in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge and rushed into the street. When police arrived with an ambulance, he was still running. "I can't stop!" he shouted. "I'll die if I stop!" His polyester shirt had melted onto his arms and chest, and he suffered third-degree burns from the waist up. At week...
...roughly equivalent to that of a successful factory manager. Vladimir Yashchenko, 21, a world-class high jumper busily training for the Olympics, receives a stipend of $400 from the government. Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 28, the 1980 winter Olympic champion figure-skating pair, live in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Moscow, a privilege seldom granted to a couple so young. Once their playing days are over, many Olympic athletes can look forward to careers as coaches and sport administrators...
With a six-figure income-$65,000 in salary plus fees as a director of seven corporations (including American Express and Xerox)-Jordan lives with his wife Shirley and daughter Vickee in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue. He is an avid tennis player and pro football fan. He travels in a chauffeured Mercury, wears Brooks Brothers suits and relishes expensive wines and cigars...
...designed a kitchen, this would be it. Everything is dingy, dirty, tattletale gray. The refrigerator, the table, the washer-name it-it is dusty and either sags or tilts. At stage left is the adjoining bedroom, crammed with cardboard boxes...
...night last October, two gunmen burst into the Isfahan bedroom of Anglican Bishop Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti and his British-born wife Margaret, spraying them with automatic-pistol fire. Four bullets pierced the pillow near the bishop's head. Amazingly, he was not hit, though his wife received a bullet in the arm. The bishop, president of the Central Synod which includes all Anglicans in the Middle East, fled to exile in Cyprus...