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...kill herself. During her junior year of college, she tried again. On a February morning in 1998, just days after a campus counselor recommended she be hospitalized for her suicidal tendencies, Rutnam threw herself off the eighth floor of a Syracuse dormitory and fell 90 ft. to the patio below...
Every morning Gottlieb and Collette provide a breakfast of fruits, cereals and freshly baked scones, which can be enjoyed either in the kitchen or outdoors on the patio. There is also a comfortable parlor in which guests can pour themselves a glass of sherry while browsing through guidebooks. And what could be more soothing than having Tucker, the golden retriever, nearby...
...meets me at sunset on the Namotu resort patio, decked with torches and stone idols, which lend our sit-down an odd Polynesian-honeymoon quality. "All the great stories are about our battle with loneliness," Hanks once said. "That's what I always end up being drawn toward." But, I suggest to him, it's more than that; it's a specific, homesick subgenre of loneliness. Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Hanks' man-children in Forrest Gump and Big and even Toy Story--all share one universally sympathetic struggle: fate blows them off course...
Fiber-optic lighting for the patio spa is gaining popularity, mostly because the wiring remains far away from the water and the typical system is lit entirely by a single 150-watt lightbulb ? which can be changed without draining the pool...
With Clowes, it has always been the mood, created by character and environmental detail, that counts. In one scene David talks with Wanda's sister at a patio table, and the wind carries the paper cups with their drinks into the bushes. It's a small, perfect detail. It adds a kinetic element to a static scene and foreshadows what the future may have in store for these two characters...