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Starr may have been able to force Monica Lewinsky's mother to testify about her daughter's activities [NATION, Feb. 23], but he could chain me to a wall in the deepest dungeon with rats nibbling at my feet and I would never divulge what my daughter told me in confidence. In Nazi Germany children were encouraged to squeal on their parents. Is this what we have sunk to? HARRIETT SCHUTKIN Fox Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1998 | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...weekends when there's nothing else to do and the quality of the movie is not too much of an issue. DiCaprio plays both the young King Louis XIV, a philandering and utterly obnoxious young man, and his secret twin brother Phillipe. Phillipe has been locked up in a dungeon for the last six years with an iron mask on his face to conceal his identity. When Louis sends ex-Musketeer Athos' (John Malkovich) son Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard) back to war so that he can pursue his betrothed Christine (Judith Godreche) and he is killed, Athos calls...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mask' Offers Cliched Tale of Vacationing Cast | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...anybody's attention, starting on the fourth day," recalls the bed-bound 84-year-old. "You'd have your call light on for hours, but nobody came." What made her waiting more desolate was the near total deprivation of sunlight during her four months at Creekside. "It was a dungeon," she says. "I really would have liked to see the sunshine, but they never put us outside." Things only got worse when the sun set, and the staff ignored calls for help or pain-killers. "The screaming is what got to me the worst, the screaming when the lights went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NURSING HOMES: FATAL NEGLECT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...break such an endless cycle of frustration is to hit the machines, increase literal repetitions and create a proper workout. Moreover, this newfound energy will provide invigorating freedom. Surely even Buttercup, with a few turns on the butterfly machine, could manage to escape any self-constructed dungeon...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Following the Worse Path | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...things that are there [now] are often broken, and it would save a lot of time--you wouldn't have to go up to the desk," said Salvatore Gogliormella '98, calling the current lab "kind of like a dungeon...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: Language Lab to Move to Lamont | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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