Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wolf," as his box in the Prep Room is labelled, is a man with a Ph.D. in experimental and atomic physics from Brandeis University. As might be guessed, Rueckner was born in Germany. The greater of his years, however, were spent growing up in Springfield...
Center stage in his prep room is one of his more interesting "toys." The structure looks like, well, a giant bird cage with a chair for a professor in it. Electrical current is run through the ungrounded cage. Sparks flying, the professor, unharmed, is able to lecture from within. Sound like...
Rueckner's Prep Room is overflowing with electrical cords, video equipment, desks and 52 gallon drums, among other things...
...case, enough people had noticed what was going on. When questioned by our principal one or two of my friends corroborated my story. So, even though the abusers were the two most popular guys in my class and both came from families who had been connected with my prep school for years, I spoke...
Here is where a joyride turns into a forced march. Harry shackles himself to chronology: his privileged upbringing, his prep schools, his Yale, his initiation into the CIA, his subsequent postings to the world's hot spots -- Berlin in 1956, Latin America in the late '50s, South Florida during the U.S. Castromania of the early '60s. To certify his authenticity, Harry begins quoting extensively from letters he wrote and received, from interoffice memos, cable traffic and transcripts of bugged or wiretapped conversations. Mailer has invented all these reams of evidence, of course, but they come tricked out to look just...