Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tinkly or percussive as in Beijing opera. In a further attempt to weight the scales in favor of the sensitive outcast, Baryshnikov's speeches are candidly written and delivered with touching directness. Most remarkable, however, are his agility and grace in evoking the lumbering, graceless creature. Skittering across the floor, or toppled over backward and trying to right himself, or dangling from the spider web of piping that represents a ceiling, Baryshnikov is completely believable as both misfortunate man and misunderstood beast...
...night is an impending rescue attempt, you are slammed up against the wall, the barrel of a gun pressed against your temple. Each day you have 15 minutes to shower, brush your teeth and wash your underwear in the bathroom sink. Your bed is a mat on the floor. One of your fellow hostages tries to escape, and the guards beat him senseless. Another tries to commit suicide. One day you too reach the edge of your sanity. You begin furiously pounding your head against a wall. Blood oozes from your scalp and smears down your face...
Anderson is lost in the bowels of Beirut, but he is not alone. In the same 12-ft. by 15-ft. bedroom, also shackled hand and foot and crouching on the floor of a dirty clothes closet, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco of Catholic Relief Services (kidnaped Jan. 8, 1985) peers under his blindfold at the new arrival. A month later, they are led down to the dungeon, a basement partitioned into cramped cells with thin plasterboard, and held prisoner with others: William Buckley, Beirut station chief of the CIA (kidnaped March 16, 1984), the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary...
Speaking to one another in whispers, the hostages listen to Buckley's moans as he grows weaker, and finally delirious. On June 3, Buckley squats on the tile floor believing that he is sitting on a toilet seat, and food fantasies fill his head. "I'd like some poached eggs on toast, please," he mumbles. "I'd like an order of pancakes." That night Buckley starts making strange grunts and the others realize they are hearing the rattle of death, and a guard comes and drags Buckley's body away. Anderson's first letter to his family contains his last...
Several hours later, a fuming Keverian gathered reporters in his own office and noted that he and the House leadership defended Shannon's budget and opposed the floor amendment to cut the expert witness account...