Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double doors of the drab green second-class railroad coach burst open as the train jerked to a halt. Onto the rain-drenched station platform tumbled 21 disheveled passengers. Men in ill-fitting clothes hurriedly handed down bulging cardboard suitcases. One man struggled with a monstrous feather mattress while a small boy darted away to admire the bicycles in a commuter's rack. There were few words, only a rush to get off the train. With good reason. For many of the passengers, the train was a reminder of a world they have been trying to leave since...
...week job as editorial assistant to Editor Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar, Ali signed on as a photographer's helper and began to carom around New York. "I never had a hi-fi or even a sofa in those days," she recalls. "I just threw a mattress on the floor most places...
...works of Ed Shostak, 29, have a similar roughness-but by default, since, "I couldn't afford to make them in metal." A struggling young artist if there ever was one, he is still at the stage where his bed is a mattress on the floor, and he works, often two shifts a day, as a waiter. Influenced at first by minimal art ("I am extremely derivative. I worshiped Robert Morris, but I got over that") Shostak has gravitated toward a kind of abstracted nature-imagery. Minimal art he now finds understated and unimportant. "I think of my work...
...other," says Janos. "He squinted sleepily and saw two stars, reporter with bolted pad and a host of brass hovering in the background. He bolted from bed as if ejected from a smoking jet. His feet never touched the floor as he executed an incredible acrobatic loop off the mattress and landed upright in the the stiffest embrace I've ever seen−bent halfway backward. 'Hi there,' said General Page. 'Just dropped by to say hello.' The airman's eyes were now two fried eggs. 'Hi, sir,' he said through clenched...
...recent months. In Alabama's Jefferson County, civil rights lawyers claim, as many as 10,000 white students who were supposed to enter black schools this fall have remained in their old schoolhouses. The charge is that white parents have lied about where their children live, using "mattress addresses" in white neighborhoods other than their own. Preliminary checks by the Health, Education and Welfare Department have turned up at least 14 school systems where the use of various forms of "ability grouping," an increasingly debatable educational tool, has resulted in segregated classrooms. In some desegregated schools, blacks are kept...