Word: showers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lists her as 38). The walls of her cell are decorated with bold, dark drawings of Indian faces. Books on Indian lore are piled together with other texts on Buddhism, martial arts and the occult. She is allowed half an hour out of her cell each morning for a shower and an hour of exercise later in the day, but she has felt increasingly estranged from other inmates and no longer takes a recreation period. She receives no visitors because she says her surroundings would depress relatives and friends...
...Francisco to Rome have found an apparently inexhaustible market for such mementos as life-size cardboard stand-ups, 3-D posters, calendars, bed sheets, shopping bags, masks, hot-water bottles ("Take me to bed. I will keep you warm"), piggy banks, pepper shakers, ashtrays, pillboxes (a cruel touch), shower curtains and, yes, negligees...
...rock-bound islands, live The Sea People (Schocken; $14.95). The Greater Island is ruled by a king, the Lesser one by an old, blind oracle. Peace reigns until the king decides to move a red sunstone. Once the rock is disturbed, the Sea People experience an absolute shower of gold. But absolute shower corrupts absolutely, and soon the islands are threatened by pride and avarice. Only the old man's wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views...
...from windows. "In that south cell block," said Policeman Dan Russell, "nearly all of them were dead." Some inmates tried to save themselves from the deadly smoke by stuffing rags beneath their cell doors. Others, said Prisoner Charlie Acevedo, "wrapped their faces with wet towels or got in a shower and put wet blankets over them. The ones that didn't died...
Texas A&M administrators are unabashed about their willingness to shower lucre on a few desirable luminaries. "We're interested in attracting key people of high quality for our faculty," says Pieter Groot, the university's assistant vice president for academic budgets. "In order to get these professors, we have to go to higher salaries...