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Born Susan Anne Potter in Dunsmuir, Calif., Douglas has been thrice married and enjoyed a highly successful career as a publishing executive (WomenSports) before starting her own magazine sales and marketing firm in Los Angeles. In 1976 boredom tempted her to put a personal ad ("dynamic career woman, tall, blonde . . .") in a cheap tabloid for singles. "My personal life was on hold," she says...
...range from $45 a day in Kewaunee County, Wis., to $5 in civil cases in San Francisco, where nothing at all is paid to those who wait. Tensions inside the jury room can be painful, particularly if the jurors are sequestered at night. But the most common complaints are boredom and a sense of futility. Many are called and few chosen. Even those who are chosen, and summoned to court at a brisk hour of the morning, endure considerable (and often unexplained) delays before the court machinery finally turns. Judges often do not explain the law's mysteries...
...prepare for and take an entrance exam to graduate school, and two endured the deaths of close relatives. Conjugal visits were permitted only on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Jeffrey Vacek, 23, a computer technician, says of the separation from his steady girlfriend, "It was hell." Because of the boredom and isolation, the jurors, like many other kinds of captives, began to develop an obsession with food. "The main thing was eating," recalls Sherman Frooman, 53, a clothing salesman. "But after all that restaurant food, sometimes I just wanted a simple...
...back of the sheriffs bus and caused a momentary panic among the deputies when they found themselves missing one juror. "All it was was party, party, party," complains one of the older jurors, but a younger one hotly defends the antics as "creative ways of relieving boredom...
...sleight of hand since 1961, when the first of these 60 stories was published. But as even animal trainers and patient readers know, one trick, no matter how clever, is not enough to sustain a career. By the tenth Barthelme miniature, what began as curiosity and amusement alters to boredom and exasperation. The author's faults-preciosity and an appearance of smugness high among them-become irritatingly noticeable, and the feeling grows that he is not bestirring himself enough to justify continued patronage.-By John Skow