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...prison, with a colonnaded inner courtyard where the inmates, clad in bright orange jackets, could stroll in pairs. Inside, brightly colored dayrooms equipped with televisions, butcher-block tables and cushy chairs completed a picture of serenity. For inmates and their watchers alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five tiers of cages, the earsplitting clash of steel against steel as hundreds of cell doors slammed shut in unison; gone was the cavernous, clattering mess hall, whose ambiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gilded Cages | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...search for local hypnotists, when I let my fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages, I expected to find listings for "Magic Marla" and "Hypnotist Hilda" entries that promised an experience of body-possession or body-snatching. I expected to enter a dark and dank hole in the wall and arrive at a psychadelic mecca, complete with crystal ball and entrancer clad in gypsy-garb...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: No Swinging Watches For This Hypnotist | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

Obviously it meant war. No momentary lapse of reason would damn us to the dank labyrinths underneath that depressing medieval castle. We would rail against the grippe of German philosophy and black turtlenecks. We would extinguish smoking. Vegetarians (and other radicals) would convert, or die at our hands. The Bright Clothes Coalition was born...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lotteries Past: How to Survive the Anxiety | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...anyone would choose the dank carousels of Lamont over the spirited sidelines of Harvard Stadium or Cumnock Field still amazes me. To wander from game to game, supporting the Crimson in all the days' endeavors, I must admit, is my favorite way of spending a Saturday in Cambridge...

Author: By E.a. Resnick, | Title: Inspired By the Ivy Weekend | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

Night Ride Home follows Mitchell's 1988 Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and comes on the heels, or paws, of her 1985 Dog Eat Dog, an intensely inward effort full of dank social speculation whose lack of wide acceptance is still a bit irksome to the singer-composer. "It was mistimed," she speculates. "It was viewed as negative and preacherly at the time of its release. It was an angry album." Mitchell seems heartened by the warm, early interest accorded the new record, and a little suspicious, as if she has produced something so attractive that it must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigator of the Deep | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

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