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...walk along it, up a mild gradient toward Hospital Street, your feet raise little puffs of dust from the rubble of what were once concrete homes. The path is covered with the litter of war--broken sea-green ceramic tiles, a punctured cooking-gas cylinder, a thin foam mattress, a blond-haired baby doll. As you make your way into the camp, the snarl of traffic in the town and the calls of peddlers recede, and when you reach Hospital Street, all is silent. The Palestinians who live in Jenin Refugee Camp shuffle and gawk, still stunned by the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Untangling Jenin's Tale | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...fall of 1990. The event that got the most attention was the alleged rape of a female Northeastern student in 1988 that was eventually settled out of court in 1991. A Crimson article noted that court documents claimed “the club maintained an unsanitary ‘mattress room’ for sexual exploits and promoted the room in its newsletters...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fraternal Disorder | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

Then, a week after the lunch, I'm trawling magazines for stories about The Scorpion King, and I discover verbatim recapitulations of almost every spontaneous aside and admission that I had thought Johnson made to me and me only. This guy is good. From the "p___-stained mattress" to his favorite doughnuts--glazed, chocolate-chocolate frosted, blueberry--it's all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rock Is An Onion | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...possibly recommend The Salton Sea? If it could, this nasty film would make you smell the disgusting food on the table. And that says nothing about its casual sadism. One spaced-out speed freak has his female companion sandwiched between mattress and box spring, her legs twitching convulsively while he conducts a drug deal. The bad people in this film are, frankly, morons. They are not theoreticians of the theater of cruelty. It is their creators who are confusing the administration of giggly shocks with aesthetic ambition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Revenge Served Cold | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...bulk of the Bollywood product. Or the mobsters order up young dancers from the beer bars of Bombay and relieve them of their virginity. Such activities require a fitting stage. One of the dons has ordered himself a bed from Dubai for a princely $36,800?not including the mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangsters in Exile | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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