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...small khaki tent that shakes and rocks from the 18-wheelers roaring past on the interstate below, Mike MacKay, 30, cooks instant soup on his hot plate, clears his table on top of a portable toilet and defiantly mutters a solemn vow. "I'm set to do this for two or three years," he says. "My wife and I are determined to get a house." Pitted in a bizarre promotional contest to win an $18,000 mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks...
...that it is boring, boring by definition and by design. Yet there are accidental Expressionist stage-set touches: Stateville's round, four-tier cell houses, each with its all-seeing gun tower at the hub; in a prison shop, a row of machine tenders, each man in a khaki shirt with WORK painted on the back; on a guard's desk a canvas bandoleer, in every numbered pouch a safety razor for daily distribution on death row; a jarring, hand-lettered sign, NO SNICKERS, that in fact refers to the commissary's candy-bar supply...
Sharon had found the right spot. He ignored the Katyusha rockets that were exploding within 300 meters of the headquarters. Dressed in rumpled khaki pants and a windbreaker, he climbed briskly up the steps to the third floor and out onto a flat roof. There he answered his officers' questions about the rest of the operation and snapped out quick orders. "Are we going to enter Beirut?" asked a noncom. "No," replied Sharon flatly. "We must stay away from Beirut." He explained: "I shall avoid at all costs fighting a battle inside the city of Beirut. The elimination...
Spielberg is a lean, brown-bearded, medium-size man whose considerable physical presence seems stressed by his steadily ticking analytical intelligence. He wears a standard director's outfit, a khaki safari jacket and jeans. Otherwise, there is very little that is standard about him and almost nothing suggesting Hollywood. He is obsessive about self-control and, perhaps for that reason, takes no drugs, virtually no alcohol and carries herbal tea bags to avoid caffeine drinks. When he is in Beverly Hills he does the food shopping, to the frustration of his maid Bertha Kanafil, and cooks often...
...Welcome," said Commandant Azmi Zghayar. He was about 5 ft. 10 in., carried a cane and walked with a slight limp, the result of a wound suffered during a raid on Israel. He wore a khaki wool sweater and green fatigues, and a pistol was tucked into his hip pocket...