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...fences laced with razor wire (but without watch towers or sharpshooters) surround the center. Inside, there are no corrections officers, only "therapeutic assistants" who must guard the detainees using pepper spray, not guns. Whitsett roomed in an open "pod" with 15 bunks, not a cell. The staff offers intense psychological treatment but cannot force participation. The Jimmy Ryce Act is so constitutionally murky that Whitsett could not even be called an inmate. He was, rather, a "resident...
...Annette Bening and Cindy Crawford, body-conscious expectant mothers are clamoring for hip, clingy garb that will show off their burgeoning-but-still-sexy silhouettes. Designers and retailers aiming at this market are burgeoning too. Barneys New York launched a maternity line in January, and A Pea in the Pod, a maker of upscale maternity wear, has exclusive deals with designers Nicole Miller, Vivienne Tam and Lily Pulitzer. Business is expanding quite nicely. Mothers Work, the world's largest manufacturer of maternity apparel, saw earnings jump 26% in the first three months...
...stands in easily for the earth. But see it from the side, within sight of the floating models of Jupiter and Saturn, and it's the sun. Get underneath, next to the giant tripod that supports it, and it's the underside of a sci-fi space pod. Stand back in a properly reflective mood, and it suggests the expanding bubble of creation itself. And maybe also that famous perisphere at the 1939 World's Fair--not all the associations here are cosmic...
...catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family sit down to dinner. "Pleasant, unemotional conversation," we are told, "helps digestion." Hey, what is this? Stalin's Russia...
...tale theme of a child separated from its parents. The child is a whale, inside a hollow iceberg; it fretfully watches its parents' shadows outside the ice wall as it tries to escape. Then it magically floats up on a shaft of light and joins the rest of the pod. Together they all soar, through clouds, until with a great splash they come to the surface of what may be heaven. It's a superb, uplifting flight of the spirit...