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Half past eleven. Yawn. Brush teeth. Ready for bed. Let's see, what to watch, what to watch? There's always Johnny. Wonder who's on? Not Charles Nelson Reilly and Charo again. Nightline? Nope, too heavy. Kojak rerun? Nah, seen that one. What's this? Thicke of the Night! What kind of name is that? Oh, yeah, isn't he that Canadian guy who was supposed to challenge Carson? A comedy-variety show. Hmmm. Let's have a look...
...response, the defendants charged that they had been tortured into making false confessions. Wing Commander John Cox told the court that his interrogators rubbed a "red-hot wire brush" between his buttocks, then tortured him with electric shocks. After the ordeal, he testified, "I asked them what they wanted...
...glib, angry men who pummel their wives, a brush with the law sometimes has a sobering effect. A recent Police Foundation working paper concluded: "It is clear that the recidivism measure is lowest when police make arrests." New York's Karla Digirolomo agrees: "In general, arrests work because they give the message to the man that such behavior is inappropriate. They also give the message to the woman that somebody will help...
This has been going on since the 6th century, with the result that few of the accumulated images that spell "typical Japan" to a foreigner were invented by the Japanese themselves. Zen Buddhism was an import, and pagodas and brush calligraphy and bonsai trees (originally known to the Chinese as penjing). Likewise the microchip and the small, inexpensive car. Tempura, the name of one of the Japanese dishes most popular among foreigners, is a mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating...
...quoted by Foucault, in which it it written that "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c)tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." We now have animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating...