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...opium den was in a small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium, pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled...
...fact, preparing for a game is "like a businessman going to a meeting. I have a 9-to-5 job like everyone else," he says. Not quite. When he goes home at night, he often lugs along reels of game film and then spends long hours in his den taking notes by the flickering light. His diligence has paid off in a kind of built-in instant-replay system. On the field, he says, "every time a defensive formation moves it reminds me of something I've seen on one of the films the week before...
After the game, Coach Den Curtis and team members agreed that the game was by far the best played of the season...
...spite of the daily barbing that I was flag-waving the American stars and stripes (den Sternenbanner hochtragen) when they didn't get their information, despite the threats to put me in a mental institution, despite their calling me a 'Schweinehund" (and Elizabeth even worse) I did not ever insult or use any improper language or raise my voice towards any member of the East German government, Secret Police or otherwise, as tape recordings would show if they dared produce them. Western press reports would one day quote East lawyer Vogel as saying that at the trial I had been...
...Jackson fortress wraps itself around a pool; it has walkways and plants growing all around; there is a basketball half court, badminton court, an archery range and, inside, a pool table in a sunken rec room and a den that looks like a cross between a motel lobby and the foyer of a Sunset Boulevard record company. The walls are plastered with platinum records (each signifying $2,000,000 in sales) and various other trophies the boys have picked up. For furniture, there is a bar, a stereo with big speakers and leatherette couches...