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...profound pity up from the most nightmarish sensationalism: the deposed king dragged from the castle cesspool, half mad and dripping with muck, washed and soothed and kissed by his murderer in the lingering tender dialogue with which a frightened lover is put to sleep. Then smothered with a feather blanket, crushed beneath an upturned table. Then legs up, and the flaming retribution for pederasty, a cauterization evidenced by the chronicles Marlowe knew but made into a myth beyond history, as searing as an image by Hieronymus Bosch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage Abroad: A Double Crown | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement all over, small windows with bars and an iron door. I was told to take off all my clothes... it was cold. I was not allowed to have water. I was given one blanket. There was nothing to urinate in. I screamed all night..." He left after a week and went to another hospital...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Harvard and Your Head | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...bombing around Hanoi in 1967, his captors treated him for kidney stones and put him on a special diet. He reported that medics regularly check the prisoners. Once illnesses are reported to guards, the prisoner receives prompt attention. According to Risner, each prisoner has two sets of clothes, a blanket, soap and toothbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PLIGHT OF THE PRISONERS | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...become destructive. Venetians customarily heat their homes with soft coal that is released into the air before it has fully burned. Added to this are similar fuel wastes from vaporetti (ferryboats) exhausts and industrial smokestacks. The combined residues, often trapped by the damp Venetian climate, form a heavy sulfurous blanket over the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE SINKING JEWEL OF THE ADRIATIC | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...Turkish Women Bathing. The Greek statuary and the languid maidens seem a bit ridiculous, but its true quality lies in its handling of color. The transparent blues of the water and sky determine the orange garments of two figures, the dusky greens set off the dark red of a blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Rediscovered Riches | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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