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...perfect, of course, even at Portsmouth. Incorrigibles are still likely to land in "the hole": solitary confinement below ground in dank semidarkness. The Navy is also investigating reports that Portsmouth has a major drug-trafficking problem. But such black marks pale in comparison with the grim conditions at one of the military's least reformed prisons: the Army stockade at Mannheim, Germany...
...past most congressmen have been affected by demonstrations only indirectly. They read about numbers and violence in the newspapers. Like the body counts from Vietnam. however, such reports pale in comparison to direct experience. In the past week these congressmen have been directly confronted by veterans, many of them crippled, asking why and pointing the finger of blame and anguish. The re-actions were visible on the congressmen's faces...
...HEAVY black smoke of burning incense pours out of the door to a front room at 46 Concord Avenue on Saturday nights at 7, when the weekly Process Sabbath Assembly, their public religious service, begins. Inside the room, the pale skin of a few babies shows up sharply in the candle-light against the black clothing of the women who hold them. Over and over, the worshippers sitting on cushions around the floor sing to the accompaniment of three guitars a hymn that stresses the unity of the members of the Church. At one end of the room, hung...
...There Be Light. By far the most important measure was the Government's decision to permit U.S. distillers to make a totally new kind of tipple called "light whisky." Pale in color, varying in strength between 80 and 90 proof, and bland-tasting enough to get lost in the mixer, it will come to market in July 1972. An estimated 140 million gallons are gently aging in warehouses, and the inventory is expected to reach 200 million gallons by introduction time...
...staggering power of the scene in which Giovanni stabs his sister Annabella is due to a vaulting funnel effect achieved through intense turquoise lighting of the higher recesses of the set above her bed. Shades of rose, violet and pale turquoise give way in the lighting of the last scenes to the wild-set and dark-set of hues. If Ford's themes foreshadow Sade, Poe and Nabokov, the combined effect of Colacecchia's set and Jonathan Miller's lighting evokes the same sense of demented, striving sensuality found in the eighteenth-century etchings of Piranesi...