Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his last two months of life, Gary Mark Gilmore was engaged in a strange and increasingly emotional correspondence with a girl named Amber Edwina Hunt and nicknamed Amber Jim. The daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...
...describe this work; some call it "primitive art," others just attribute it to sheer madness and leave it at that. The Throne is a series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct his tribute to the second coming of Christ. Hampton built this set-piece in a poorly lit, unheated garage in D.C. He took just about anything he found to design an almost symmetrical arrangement of over...
...greet the ships. He received a U.S. visa in 1947 and settled in San Francisco. He recalls: "I had no commitments, no obligations, no money−nothing but opportunity." He made the most of it. To put himself through the University of California at Berkeley, he worked as a janitor, a movie ticket taker, a stagehand, a casino shill. After graduation, he enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Within five years, he earned three degrees, including a Ph.D. in economics...
...hundred eighty-plus glittering objects arranged around a central throne testify to a retiring religious janitor's conviction that he was commissioned to build a monument to Jesus in preparation for the Second Coming...
Five people, including a janitor, passed by during the operation, but the Yalies escaped detection, McDonald said...