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Inside a 52-ft.-high aluminum geodesic dome, which acts as a buffer against the drifting snow, are three prefabricated buildings resembling large mobile homes. They contain sleeping facilities for 40 people, a communications center (including a ham radio shack for contacts with home), a dining hall and kitchen, a small gym and library, a photographic darkroom and several computer-equipped scientific laboratories. In Quonset-like buildings adjoining the dome are the base's power plant, biology lab, dispensary and garage. One of the huts also shelters an ingenious freshwater system that uses heat from the diesel generators...
...there may be a reason why)." The poem seems to invoke the voice of an African goddess who croons a mixture of nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables (such as the tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea: it's just Giovanni presenting her unreal ego. And Time likes to call the poet "a shrewd and energetic propagandist." It kind of reminds you of Beverly Johnson, the black model, who drew the attention...
...bustled out, and remarked that gee I had even remembered my license plate number in filling out the form. She advised us not to sleep too near the lake because it was very cold, and indeed, we almost perished, reading thrillers by candlelight in the tent. Anyway, the shack that served as rest rooms was the wonderful thing about the place. Absolutely spotless, immaculate, and furnished in Alaskan dentist's office splendour. Shivering from the woods with pine-smeared toothbrush, you enter a room with a mirror in the shape of a crucifix. The walls are neatly papered with church...
Last May, President Bok convened an ad hoc committee--which must act on all Faculty appointments before sending them to Bok and the Governing Boards--to consider Southern, Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, and William Shack, an associate professor of Anthropology at Berkeley...
...Daniel was hardly a substantial thing. Gay and he were the shadowed whispers of 4 a.m. arguments, heard across the 3-4 inch thick fiberboard that separates our kitchens. But we bought the Delac and she glows in the dark and Daniel was sky-high and wandering into our shack chanting, "Fried potatoes, Fried potatoes, Fried onions...," spuming beer down over his chin like a baby gurgling on its pablum (greasily, in big, viscous bubbles), his Coors can outstretched as he flexed to show off his "megalopulous muscles," twittering about the floor like a wind-up toy (skittering into walls...