Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ingesting phenobarbital mixed with a bit of applesauce or pudding, kicked by a shot of vodka, then helped along by the asphyxiating effect of a plastic bag over the head. The final two men--the ultimate angels of death--had only bags, no shrouds. Alone in the master bedroom, his order in the march of death still unknown, was the master himself: 65-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite...
Your article "Legal Tender," about political fund raising in the White House, was interesting but also disturbing [NATION, March 17]. It appears that instead of building a bridge to the 21st century, the Clinton-Gore team put up a Golden Gate to the Lincoln Bedroom. JACK ROOSA Gulfport, Mississippi...
...hypocritical we are! We have long snickered at some neighboring countries in South America as banana republics. But now, between PAC money for Congress and solicited campaign gifts virtually being left on the nightstand in the Lincoln Bedroom by Clinton's "friends," we can truly say favors and legislation are for sale in the U.S. MARTIN JANSEN Agoura Hills, California...
Enterprising hotel operators should copy the decor of the Lincoln Bedroom several times and rent the rooms to anyone who can pay for them. Perhaps political parties and foreign countries could rent blocks of the rooms for their friends. Of course, these duplicate accommodations would tend to diminish the prestige of that bedroom in the White House, which could even add several trailers on its grounds. Then social climbers could claim to have spent a night in the "Lincoln Bedroom" at the White House but not necessarily in the White House. CHARLES F. NELSEN Oakhurst, California...
...sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they may meet in the intimate setting of the computer screen in their own den or bedroom. In that sense, the Net offers the same sort of intrusive contact with people in their homes that has made telemarketing a multibillion-dollar business. Just as lonely people often are vulnerable to pitchmen who call them at home, some maladjusted or immature people are unusually receptive to online conversations with strangers...