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...faces around me flushed with the rage of helplessness, or some crazed hope of last-minute deliverance, or the hallucinatory peace of the imminence of death. At the back of the room, in a space clear of prisoners. I see a barrel of water, and alongside it a pail, brush...
...terrorists' Padua apartment on Dec. 17, Dozier was chained by his left ankle and right wrist to a raised wooden platform covered by a small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail of water brought to him once a week, and was supplied with a chemical toilet. His captors hung a white 40-watt light bulb in the tent during what Dozier took to be daytime, and replaced it with a blue 40-watt bulb, presumably at night. His daily regimen included exercising...
...Hamlet might have been a pleasant fellow if Shakespeare had not handicapped him with that belief in ghosts, plus suicidal and homicidal tendencies. On the other end, given the way authors are, Jack is bound to wind up falling all over himself every time he tries to fetch a pail of water. In truth, the world's literary and theatrical output, from high drama to nursery rhymes, is as violent and vice-ridden as yesterday's news. Poet Ezra Pound may have had something of the sort in mind when he said: "Literature is news that stays news...
...Viet Nam veteran in New York City spends all his days on his back porch, throwing lighted matches into a pail. Another has not been out of his house in ten years: a literal hostage to the war that goes banging on in his own mind. Robert Moore, 32, spent eight years hiding at home, before he joined a VA-supported outreach center in Queens. There, he and two other veterans work as a team to locate similar cases of radical withdrawal ?men hunkered down in their little psychic tunnels, like Viet Cong staying safe from all that American...
...that FHA subsidizes inefficiency by providing marginal farmers with enough funds so that they will not have to quit the land. Contends John Lawlor, executive vice president of the Citizen State Bank in Belle Plaine: "They've kept people in business who should have been carrying a lunch pail." But Vernon Nelson, FHA supervisor for Benton County, is proud that his loans have contributed to the success of farmers who just need a little help in competing with the conglomerate operators. The argument over FHA boils down to one of practicality vs. sentiment, depending on how important maintaining family...