Word: inns
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Woven together with haunting languge and a bizarre story line, Ocean Sea centers around four lost souls staying at a seaside inn, each hoping that the ocean's therapeutic power will heal their spiritual wounds. The characters are a mixture of precocious children and wizened adults who all offer trite commentary on the book's constant effort to present deep and soul-searching questions. Perhaps the most ridiculous characters are the two men: Professor Bartleboom, who tries to measure the end of the infinite sea, and Plasson the painter who tries to paint where the sea begins. As Bartleboom combs...
...same morning, three inn guests woke up to find their cars vandalized and looted...
...same night, the Mary Prentiss Inn was also victim to a series of crimes. The morning of Feb. 14, the co-owner of the inn, located at 6 Prentiss St., discovered that someone had stolen an IBM computer from an unlocked workshop area...
...like a sack of potatoes," says Bruce Harris, executive director of a children's shelter in San Jose, Costa Rica. One doesn't have to go far to see his point. Down the street from the San Jose police headquarters, 10-year-old prostitutes await customers from the Holiday Inn...
DIED. CLAYTON ("Peg Leg") BATES, 91, one-legged tap dancer; in Fountain Inn, S.C. Bates didn't let an accident that severed his leg at the age of 12 keep him from dancing. Wearing a wooden limb outfitted with metal taps, he hoofed from the 1920s to 1989; appeared in vaudeville, film and TV; performed with musicians such as Louis Armstrong; and made more than 20 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show...