Word: closet
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...such thing as a good day for a prisoner at the highest level of security within the Ohio State Penitentiary, a 504-bed supermax prison in Youngstown, Ohio. Every inmate lives alone in a 7-ft. by 14-ft. cell that resembles nothing so much as a large, concrete closet, equipped with a sink, a toilet, a desk and a molded stool and sleep platform covered by a thin mattress. The solid metal door is outfitted with strips around the sides and bottom, muffling conversation with inmates in adjacent cells. Three times a day, a tray of food is delivered...
...night. The play had problems, real problems. After the performance, Neil took my arm, walked me down the alley, and said, 'Mike, so you really like my coat?'" Lavin recalls Simon's coming to rehearsal with a bad cold and remarking that even the clothes in his closet were sneezing. When one of Simon's daughters told Silverman, who plays Eugene Jerome, that he resembled pictures of Simon at the same age, the playwright turned and said, "The only piece of advice I have for you is 'Hold onto your hair...
...There’s a need for this level of visualization,” Lue adds. “One can almost say that I’m a closet film director—there’s drama, pacing, characterization. The idea is to pull you in, to make people say ‘I wanna figure that...
...weekly Adams House sophomore Social Studies tutorial had started as planned. But someone was missing: Currun Singh ’07, a bit tipsy and hiding in a closet, was trying to salvage what had become a disastrous class. The lecturer asked a question and Singh piped up (“very intelligently, too!” he claims) from his hidden lair. Trying to surprise the lecturer, Singh turned the doorknob—only to discover he was locked in. After a fellow classmate and conspirator freed him, Singh, who while concealed had inexplicably covered himself with remnants...
...Isabelle, Switzerland will not be be the land of freedom for her children she has envisaged. Chevalier is not remiss in reminding us that young lives can end tragically. The novel suggests that every family has a skeleton in the closet. (Or in Isabelle’s 16th century equivalent, a skeleton under the foundations of the house...