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...prison, in Erving Goffman's terminology, is a "total institution," like a nunnery or a boot camp or a mental hospital. The bargaining power of prisoners looks pretty small. They cannot recruit help from outside, communications are restricted, and they have no alumni association that looks out for them. There's not much they can withhold from the institution; much of their work is "make-work." They even have poor opportunities for violence because so much of the time they are locked up. But once in awhile they start some...
...woman, too, she feels herself a Jew. "Every woman adores a Fascist, the boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you." When her square boyfriend, Buddy Willard, takes down his pants for her benefit she says, "The only thing I could think of was turkey gizzards and I felt depressed." Hating her virginity she gets a man to give her the rack and the screw and hemorrhages violently. Her suicides are novel...
...whole game was rather relaxed, in fact so relaxed that the Engineers were able to boot, drop. bobble, kick, and fumble their way to a less than sparkling nine errors. Harvarden rout to its 13th victory against two defeats, was a bit more alert, falling asleep at the switch only three times. In fact. if this were St. Louis, the big red "E" on the Budweiser scoreboard would've burned out from overuse...
...tracks I had fallen in love with (she was and is beautiful) the spring before (I disappointed her) and who was now going with the co-captain (who went to barber's school every Saturday morning after Friday night games-60 miles away and 7 a. m., to boot), this co-captain Billy Morrison who was nicknamed "Porky" because he weighed 180 pounds in 6th grade, and who had worked as a bouncer at the Safari Beach Motel, which was the sin center for every spring vacation college-riot-party-guzzle ever since sixth grade (he threw out some...
...mountain itself, the most common injuries used to be simple fractures of the lateral malleolus, or anklebone, and low-level spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula. But now that higher, more rigid ski boots are in style, doctors are encountering the more serious "boot-top fracture," in which the tibia and fibula are snapped well above the ankle. A simple ankle fracture takes six to eight weeks to knit properly; a simple boot-top break can require as long as 16 weeks...