Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fountain Chosen...
...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. "I've heard it's still up there in a park some place, though I've never seen it since." The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life...
...besieged Christian town of Deir al Qamar, scene of a notorious massacre of Christians by Druze in 1860. The Christian militiamen claim there are now 40,000 refugees crammed into the village. In other times, Deir al Qamar would strike a visitor as a wondrous place, with its fountain in a central square and its houses clinging to a steep mountainside. But today it is, as Mayor George Dib Nehme puts it, "like a very small jail with far too many people." He continues: "We have no assurances of food, water or medicine. We are living...
...route to a day's shooting. Arriving early in the morning, the model wandered happily up the Champs Elysees, down the busy thoroughfares...paused at outdoor boutiques to finger exotic clothes...turned her impressive dreamy profile to gaze out at the Seine and Notre Dame and a extravagant floodlit fountain...
...year-old St. Louis girl went for a dip in a fountain in a popular local park one day in July and was brutally assaulted by two youths who ripped off her shorts and repeatedly raped and sodomized her for 40 minutes. At least three adults stood by and watched as the girl screamed for help. Finally, an eleven-year-old boy alerted authorities...