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...room" in the main cell-block will contain a seatless toilet, a basin, bed and two shelves. Prisoners may decorate their rooms with bedspreads, curtains, wooden toilet covers, bedside tables and plants. Each floor has a recreation room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way to Treat a Lady | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Marat / Sade-Hair, Futz!, Tom Paine, Dionysus in '69-one scarcely thinks of holiness but of a kind of Corybantic Holy Rollerism. There is no deep ritualistic satisfaction in hearing the Dionysus in '69 troupe sibilantly repeat, "May I take you to your seat, sir?" in a seatless theater. Brook, of course, should not be blamed for his disciples. He himself expresses uneasy doubts as to whether the theater can restore rit ual or serve as displaced religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...night for the Greeks (Callas, Designer John Tsarouchis, Stage Director Alexis Minotis, not to mention Euripides), desperately placed ads in the London Times agony column in an attempt to get 33 seats for himself and guests. When a purposeful posse from Dallas came yipping into town but found itself seatless, Ambassador John Hay Whitney patriotically handed over his own four seats, and black marketeers supplied the rest at oil-well prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Callas at Covent Garden | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Seatless Schools. In actual fact, Golden's Israelite does not appeal predominantly to Jews, Northerners or radicals, but to readers with such varied views as Harry Truman and Chief Justice Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Dewey. Golden has no room for news stories, pictures or headline type. Instead, he fills the 16-page paper with witty, erudite discourse on subjects ranging from Dr. Johnson's recipe for oysters (baked in a flour-and-water batter) to Cato's hangover cure (raw cabbage leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Golden Rule | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...games to date have packed the Blockhouse with the faithful and later major games may see some of the fans turned away because of the 3,000-man fire law limit. Come next season, Messrs. Bolles and Getchell doubtless will have to contend with a horde of irate and seatless fans. They'll have no answer to give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

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