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Officials at the Hays County Jail in San Marcos, Texas, should have been suspicious when inmates bought hundreds of yards of dental floss from the prison commissary. The inmates were not concerned with dental hygiene. They braided the floss into a rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...
...WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. Tommy Tune's staging and choreography capture the splash-and-dazzle Ziegfeld extravaganzas of the teens and '20s, and Keith Carradine engagingly replicates the rope-twirling humorist who starred in them. But Will Rogers, the biggest multimedia star of his time, proves of little interest today, and every enduring thing he ever said has long since has been quoted to tedium...
Over two days, FBI agent Judson Ray guides and prods discussion with questions and comments: "Why so many loops in the rope? You don't need that many to control an old woman . . . Why is she in the bathroom? It's a closed- in space -- is he after security, or is he secretive? And why is a pillow in there -- to muffle her or to make her comfortable for sex? . . . Were the cuts on the body made before or after she died? Did she die on him, and he's mad at her? . . . Are any of these cases related? . . . What...
...Yard, but Harvard says no. Come April, the dead turf at the edge of the paved walkways is torn up. The dirt is loosened, seeds are planted. Sticky green hydroturf (a combination fertilizer/pigeon defense) is sprayed on top of the whole project. And the good folls at Facilities Maintenance rope off the grass...
...secret of the transformation from group to mob: a few leaders incite the rest, knotting the rope, throwing it over the limb of a tree. The others allow themselves to be carried passively by the group purpose. Lynch mobs always armor themselves with a sense of their retributive righteousness. They also mean to exert social control by exemplary doses of terror, on the conceit that violence is the only language the victim understands...