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This boy is too young to feel any pity for the tormented woman. But he does report his grandmother's opinion that Old Whore is getting off lightly: "They should burn the bitch on Heaven Lamp like they did in the old days." And he describes what happened to a woman condemned to Heaven Lamp: "She was hung naked upside down above a wood fire whose flames could barely touch her scalp, and two men flogged away at her with whips made of bulls' penises." The release of death usually came "a day and a night" later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ALIEN LAND | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...bill. Truly spectacular systems that automate everything from the alarm system to the jets on the Jacuzzi are still a luxury, however. A lighting system that allows homeowners to choose from a selection of preprogrammed "scenarios," for example, runs about $10,000. At that rate, a $60 motion-detecting lamp will do just fine, thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSE OF DREAMS | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...LIES Look out, Lava Lamp. The Truth.Seeker ($149, Sharper Image) may steal the prize for the most far-out, or farfetched, desktop sculpture. Digital circuitry detects stress in a supplicant's voice, flashing red for prevarication, green for honesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

After presenting Timothy Bright and his family in some detail, the book abruptly shifts its emphasis, focusing on the Chief Constable. The Constable, finding the drugged Timothy passed out on his weekend home bed, hits him over the head with a bedside lamp. He then spends a significant portion of the novel trying to avoid public exposure by disposing of Timothy's almost lifeless body...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fragmented Plot, Offbeat Characters, Humor Fill Pages of `The Midden' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...unlikely sources in sophomore Jamin Kerner, freshman Graham Morrell and senior Geordie Hyland, who in total have amassed only two career goals. But after averaging only 2.6 goals a game and posting a dismal 10-percent power-play success rate last season, Harvard was happy just to see the lamp light...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Slides By McGill in Exhibition, 5-2 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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