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Teddy's living quarters-one of eight "laminar air flow rooms" set up by the NCI for infection-prone patients -is kept free of potentially harmful viruses and bacteria by a system that forces clean air into the room through filters and out through an open doorway; germs cannot make their way past the outward-flowing air. Only people dressed in specially designed sterile outfits are allowed into the room...
...this pitch-black room not much bigger than a walk-in closet, the actors waited alone, standing among bare furniture and containers of Jiffy Pop. They listened nervously for cues and silently urged one another on with nods of the head and "O.K." signs. Through the narrow doorway, only the orchestra was visible and the brightly-lit scrim which changed color from scene to scene: red, green, blue. Stage lights turned the air to a tinged blue haze which echoed with the disembodied voices of actors and laughter and applause. Every so often an actor dashed through the greenroom, grabbing...
...dance floor were all packed with bodies. And the sexual tension that infiltrates all relations at Harvard threatened to break through to the surface. Ours, like all parties, had a grim line-up of men against the walls, openly inspecting every clothed package of flesh that squeezed through the doorway, the past the throng, and out onto the floor. Jealous singles. myself included, anxiously waited to dance with that one person, who managed to be engaged all evening. Students who in their everyday miens betray no trace of libidinal expression were liberated in that dark room, exhibitionists beneath the sensual...
...notebook. Wittingly or not, almost all had a common protagonist--himself. Skinner was preoccupied with himself throughout his youth, but only as an alien object, a specimen. (In his first experiment with behavior modification, he invented a Rube Goldberg contraption to raise a "Hang Your Pajamas" sign in his doorway when he stepped...
...Buffalo four years ago to the northern Maine community of Oxbow (pop. 72). With their friends Buddy and Gmme Swenson, they bought 150 acres of land and set about building two houses for themselves. They remember the fierce black flies in the summer and the rug hung in the doorway to keep out the cold in the fall. They had no electricity TV telephone or running water. The Swensons drilled a well When money ran low, both women picked potatoes even though they were pregnant. The youngest Swenson child was born in the family car by the side...