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...that "for the past five or six years, I have drunk a glass of my own urine-about six to eight ounces-every morning. It is very good for you, and it is even free. Even in the Bible," he went on, "it says to drink from your own cistern. What is your own cistern? It is your own urine. Urine is the water of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Drink Up, Drink Up | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting snow for drinking water. Parts of Nebraska are the driest they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Western Drought of 1977 | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...Lorenzo who was in charge of the Medici tombs project. "I saved him from death," the prior wrote of Michelangelo, "and I saved his belongings too." It was in this very room-well hidden by its trap door, but at street level and adequately lit, even furnished with a cistern for water-that the prior, Dal Poggetto argues, hid the sculptor during the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Saved from Death | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

John Conklin has designed a versatile buff-colored unit set. There is a balconied building to the right, with a console-supported bust ornamenting one wall. To the rear stands a gateway and wall. In the center is a rectangular cistern, which, with the dropping from the grid of a canopy or crucifix, can be covered in a trice to become Juliet's bed or Friar Laurence's altar. A few chairs and round tables turn the building into a sidewalk cafe, with an organ-grinder on hand to increase authenticity...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

Early in the first act, Killinger establishes the dumpy flat as his domain and Jory augments Osborne's complex stage directions with a few tricks of his own to keep it that way. For instance, the script calls for Porter to kick a cistern, then sit and play it like a Bongo in the second act. Jory has junked that and instead has Jimmy playing a complex jazz solo with plates and glasses on the bleak little tea table, as Alison announces that she's going out with her friend Helena. "That's not a direction," Porter replies in perfect...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

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