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Appointment for Love (Universal). Dr. Jane Alexander (Margaret Sullavan) is an enterprising medico who can reduce most of life's foibles and pleasures to dank laboratory formulas. To her, love is a chemical attraction; jealousy a spurt of adrenalin, etc. She works most of the time...
...last visitors shuffled out into the brilliant sunshine of Manhattan's Battery Park. Inside the Aquarium, the big pool where the sea lions once arched their sleek backs was empty; in the green gloom of the cavernous, dank galleries, water gurgled away, the lights went dark. The world's biggest marine exhibit, its denizens shipped away, was being dismantled...
Visitas conyugales are Mexico's solution to the formidable problem of sex in prison. They not only prevent homosexuality, whose dank infestation in U.S. prisons alarms intelligent penologists, but also often change the entire behavior of a convict and leave him less vengeful and obsessed upon his release. U.S. prisons, at least officially, do not have the custom...
...Late at night, so children couldn't hear them and have their little livers scared out of them, they gushed from Chicago's WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights out and settle back in their chairs, whereupon gore would commence to flow, bones to snap, screams and groans to rowel...
Problems of health mounted with the hours spent in the rank, fetid air underground. Few shelters had adequate heat, light or latrines; most were dank and unventilated at best. Children slept with their parents under blankets left underground for weeks on end. Milk for babies could not be heated if it was brought in. Nightly inspection trips were made by doctors and Red Cross nurses, but medical attention was still makeshift. One shelter doctor, who worked at a children's hospital by day, was responsible for 5,000 men, women and children at night...