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...like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell. "I cast spells, fly, disappear at will and have a dungeon that looks like a fully equipped gym. It's every girl's dream," she laughs. Indeed, the only thing she won't do is scare people away with her looks. Admits Bergen: "I'm not wizened with warts. I'm more of a New Wave witch...
Before Han is rescued, there are several close-fought battles, including one with a giant Grendel-like monster in the castle's dungeon, another with Jabba and his minions in antigravity sail barges, floating perilously above the desert pit that holds an other, even more frightening monster. It swallows its victims, and they die ever so painfully during a dinner that lasts a thousand years...
...home is supposed to be his castle. But his dungeon? Beginning this week, ten Albuquerque lawbreakers, instead of being sentenced to jail or to a toothless probation, are obliged to stay home every night. No police sentries are stationed outside, families are not required to snitch. Rather, confinement is enforced by remote control. Strapped to the ankle of each offender (mainly drunk drivers, all nonviolent adults on work-release) is a transmitter tuned in to a device on the home telephone. The phone in turn is connected to a computer downtown. It will monitor whether the electronically shack led prisoner...
...inspired warm tributes from many of his inmates as well as imitation by other penologists; of a stroke; in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three semi-autobiographical books and the inspiration for a movie (Duffy of San Quentin), he campaigned ceaselessly against capital punishment, after...
Last night, before a packed, house of 4100 chicken-head-biting, chicken-claw-scratching Cornell fans at the hockey dungeon called Lynah Rink, the Crimson iceman, 5-4 in overtime, to even their ECAC record at 7-3-2 and keep their playoff chances alive. The win is Harvard's first in Ithaca since...