Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They discovered a trapdoor in a bedroom closet concealing a 40-ft. crawl space. They began poking around in it. By this time, Gacy was babbling. He had murdered 32 young men and boys, he said. He had thrown five into the Des Plaines River, southwest of Chicago; the rest were buried under the house and garage; he even drew the police a map of the graves. By the end of last week they had uncovered the skeletal remains of 28 of the victims, some still with ropes around their necks...
...forced [those city dwellers] to conform to an austere standard of hard manual labor: no money, no mail system, no telephone service, no books, almost no individual property, no advanced education, little or no religion, and none of the freedoms accepted or at least professed by most of the rest of the world." One Cambodian admitted to Dudman that he had seen some "travelers" who looked wealthy and that he had recognized a "rich person" working in the rice fields...
...affected much of the rest of the U.S. Last June the GAO surveyed 25 counties in five states (California, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma) and discovered that foreigners own no more than three-tenths of 1% of the farm land. The Department of Agriculture figures that, of 1 billion acres of privately owned farm land, only 3 million to 5 million acres are in foreign hands...
...power over taste that no other architect can equal. "Old age," he says, "is the most important single thing to have. You just thumb your nose at the world and go about your business. We take about 10% of the work that comes into the office, and the rest we turn down " Johnson-Burgee and I.M. Pei & Partners are the two "hot" corporate firms in American architecture today; and between Johnson and Pei, younger architects tend to side with Johnson, the maverick...
...hope of enduring the Holocaust. Anne Jackson brings spirited understanding to the role of a woman caught in the primal conflict between mother and adolescent daughter under the most trying conditions. As Anne's mostly silent elder sister, Katherine Wallach quietly plays a self-effacing part, and the rest of the supporting cast are similarly competent. The problem is Roberta Wallach as Anne. She does well enough with the girl's mischievous and moony-romantic side, but she lacks both the physical and spiritual delicacy the role requires...