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Even the totally paralyzed are enjoying the toy show. They are particularly enchanted by the "trammock," a basket-shaped, rubber-rimmed combination playpen and hammock that is suspended from the ceiling. Seated inside it, immobile children can be swung round and round or bounced up and down, giving them, says Sandhu, "the miraculous feeling of movement in space...
...Rubber Chicken. A social clique formed around the jury's foreman, Herman Tubick, 58, an undertaker. Dubbed "Herman's kids," the group included Jean Roseland; Larry Sheely, 25, a telephone repairman; Anlee Sisto, 48, a school-district electronics technician; Bob Douglass, 35, an alternate juror; and Mrs. Hines, nicknamed "Giggle-bottom" because of her enthusiastic response to gags...
...jinks. Sheely and Sisto were first and second bananas. With unfettered glee, they short-sheeted beds, banged on walls, and placed a tape recording of reveille set to go off at 4 a.m. under a court deputy's bed (he slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador"). As a token of their esteem, the group at trial's end presented the chicken...
Entrance to the Special Suite is through a submarine-style hatchway. Metal sculpture adorns the antechamber; steppingstones lead across a pool and into a room equipped only with a massive rubber tree. After that, the fire-red bedroom is almost a letdown...
There is, for instance, one hallucination in which two squads of children advance toward one another behind red and yellow shields, throwing what appear to be rubber balls. There is no sound, only a slow camera movement inward until several children are revealed lying dead and bloodied on the ground. Then abruptly and without comment, the scene cuts to Antonio staring blankly into space. At another point, Antonio wanders into his son's room, asking the way out of the house. On the wall are Paul McCartney and Easy Rider posters; next to the bed is a record player...