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EARLY IN John R. Coleman's working-class sojourn, his boss sends him off to deepen a cylindrical hole to make way for a standpipe. Coleman dutifully shuffles off, squeezes his frame down into the muddy pit, and with cramped movements heaves irregular clods back up towards the light. Ill-aimed shovel-loads occasionally fall back on him, but Coleman admits to rather liking the task. And just a few feet away, he notes, another submerged laborer toils in another clammy shaft...
MISUSE OF POWER. Here the case against Nixon takes on specificity. Among the charges: 1) establishing within the White House an irregular personal secret police (the plumbers) that engaged in such criminal acts as burglary, illegal wiretaps, espionage and perjury; 2) personal approval of a plan (later vetoed by J. Edgar Hoover) authorizing illegal domestic political surveillance, military spying on civilians, mail covers and espionage against dissenters, political opponents, journalists and federal employees; 3) the dangling of a high federal post to the judge in the Ellsberg-Pentagon papers trial; and 4) the attempted use of FBI investigations, income...
...street I turned right. Here hardware of all shapes and sizes was spread out in metallic tapestries--pipes, nails, hammers, funnels, axles, wire, hinges--all irregular and worn, many rusted and cracked. Again, mostly women were sitting behind the wares. The women sell, the men haul. Seated behind a small collection of knives made of rough-hewn steel and handles whittled from eucalyptus branches, a woman chatted away with a friend who carried a bag, on her way to buy some rice or vegetables for lunch. As she talked the seated woman smoothed out the shiny folds of her yellow...
Diamonds-Highest international soaring awards, earned for altitude gain of at least 16,404 ft., distance beyond 310.7 miles and a flight of at least 186.4 miles to a prede-clared goal. Minimums are in irregular numbers because they are based on metric units...
...long scene in a gym-empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises-is as carefully controlled and lovely as a fugue. It is characteristic of Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm, the bursts of quick breath from the athletes- mingle with a Gregorian chant issuing, presumably, from upstairs. The place is called, after all. the New Avenue Walk-up Gym and Cultural Center. It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical...