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...region of silence and solitude. Cars may roar to Mammoth or the hot springs, less than ten miles away over the Tioga or Paiute passes. Toward the valley, pack trains and jeeps carry food and linen to the "High Sierra Camps" operated by the Yosemite Valley concessioniers. To the east, boyscouts and campfire girls pound dusty, mile-wide paths to the toilet-equipped camps beneath Mt. Whitney. But in the interior, the quiet is enveloping. A hiker of the trail may see no one for days, and those who visit the glacier lakes speak in whispers...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Head for the Hills, Quietly | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Elmire reminds the skeptical Orgon to reveal himself before things go too far. McElvain descends the stairs with utmostholy piety; Rodgers leads him on with an ironic smile. Sneering at Orgon's simplicity, McElvain rips off his hairshirt (revealing clean linen underneath) and prepares to go at it. Director Grey Johnson draws out the scene for all it's worth, keeping Orgon (Bill McCann) under the table until Tartuffe has practically consummated the affair. Rodgers, displaying genuine alarm, keeps kicking McCann under the table, unable to believe he could hesitate so long before putting a stop to things. Johnson controls...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Malapropism | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

According to officials, there were three other fires at the Hilton in addition to the one that Cline admits having started. After the main fire was under control, others broke out in quick succession in a second-floor linen closet, a third-floor service elevator lobby and in a ninth-floor fire hose, which had been cut open, stuffed with paper and ignited. Cline has been charged with setting only the eighth-floor fire but is being quizzed about the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City of Towering Infernos | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...also dons a light brown gabardine or white linen suit in warm weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: American Pie at Its Best | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...West did not invent sex. She just saw the humor in it, and probably no one before or since has had more fun on what she called the "linen battlefield." "I kid sex," she said. "I take it out into the open and laugh at it. I'm a healthy influence." And, as usual, she was right. Sex goddesses have come and gone and will remain so long as people go to the movies. But only Mae West was able to make a whole career out of the leer and the wink. Her voluptuous figure was as familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: She Was What She Was | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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