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...prisoner's days can be spent productively?a queer industriousness, to be sure?or endlessly loafing. At Leavenworth, he might do his time making pig bristles into paintbrushes, and earn about 60¢ an hour. In Texas, the director of prisons says he runs "quasimilitary operations," and his close-cropped inmates in uniform white cotton must work for nothing. Rick Sikes was eligible for a parole hearing after his first 120 days at Leavenworth, but he waived the opportunity; a second bank robbery conviction, and its 50-year sentence, await him in Texas. "I don't care nothin...
...shouting obscenities and menacing Miles with her electric guitar. She is outraged by the doctor-nurse scene, convinced that Miles has written it to degrade women: "Ever since I got into serious liberation, you been takin' the mickey. I got your number, mate. You're the original pig. Numero Uno." Despite the leather gear, dyed hair and garish makeup, Miles recognizes this apparition as an old, inspiring friend. She is Erato, the classical Muse of lyric poetry and, by historical default, of fiction as well...
...Congress approves the tax bill and adds $21 billion in fiscal 1983 revenue, the deficit is expected to be as high as $150 billion.) "For a conservative President like me to have to put his arms around a multibillion-dollar deficit is like holding your nose and embracing a pig," the President admitted. But the way to get a grip on the "slippery" deficit, he declared, was to raise revenues. It is "the price we have had to pay" to get more spending cuts through Congress. Reagan placed the blame on past Administrations, declaring, "If I could correct 40 years...
...Republic and a meeting with a nuclear physicist. Since being sentenced to a commune to grow tomatoes, she told Deng, the scientist said he felt much happier and more productive. Replied Deng politely: "He lied." Such rosy reports have been as predictable as the years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From the Center of the Earth supply in valuable truths to counter the diseases that afflict so many tourists: romanticism and naivet...
More than most ruggers, Roberts has helped fashion the mythic legacy that surrounds the club--beer on the sidelines during games, raucous road trips, the unspeakable annual pig roast, and one of the-finest won-lost records in the country...