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Outside San Quentin's "smokehouse"-so named because smoke curls from the gas chamber's chimney when a man is put to death-almost 500 opponents of capital punishment conducted a demonstration. Other groups picketed Governor Ronald Reagan's office and home. At the request of California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, several churches tolled their bells at the hour of Mitchell's execution "in penitence for our part in this judicial and legalized murder." But C. Julian Bartlett, the dean of Myers' own Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, declined the request...
...whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim's house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper, preferably the tinted or floral varieties. The antic is performed by boys or girls, but always in pairs or a group. As Sue Simms, 18, a senior at Silver Spring, Md.'s Montgomery Blair High School, points out, "You need someone on the other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well...
Still, Boeing has suggested that the 747 is large enough for "a nightclub complete with stage and live entertainment" and "even a fireplace-but no outside chimney." So far, none of its customers have picked up these ideas...
Wayne Jones's "Chimney Shadows" is a still life, a piece of neo-imagism. For me it's too adjectival to register ("Red shapes and white lines on the sun bleached blue"), and not timed in a way that lends its abstractions much substance. "Back through the flatness of the day/Upon memory's shadow of itself": such melody pleases the ear but leaves the mind alone...
...clause is in line with Congress' constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. Thundered Ev: "If you can tell me how interstate commerce is involved in selling or renting a house fixed to the soil, or where there is federal jurisdiction, I'll go out and eat the chimney off the house...