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...month, a year or a decade." Owen also described the harsh treatment endured by some of the hostages during the early days of their captivity last fall. They were bound hand and foot and forced to sleep on cold concrete floors without blankets; women were tied to straight-back chairs for 16 hours a day. In one particularly outrageous example of intimidation, an Iranian captor played Russian roulette with a woman captive, but stopped before his pistol killed her. Most of these details, never before disclosed, came from the 13 hostages, blacks and women, who were freed in December...
...first three acts, Redford works with a simple set consisting of a narrow, straight-back throne set on a raised platform. His blocking of each scene subtly underscores the action as it develops in the play...
Throughout the first week of the trial, which is expected to last up to three months, Thorpe sat morosely in his straight-back chair, glancing only occasionally at his wife Marion and his mother, a few feet away. Many of the spectators at "case 782002" who knew the jaunty Jeremy of the recent past were reminded of nothing so much as a sapped, wizening portrait of Dorian Gray. Not without sympathy, one wigged barrister peered out the window at a throng of TV cameramen and photographers, who were dogging Thorpe's every entrance and exit. "Well...
...looks like a big shaggy beast that has been out in the rain. Rumpled suit, tangled hair, drooping moustache, he lumbers onto the stage and stares in shy bewilderment at the audience. Rivulets of sweat stream down his face. He hikes one stumpy leg onto a straight-back chair, lazily scratches his guitar and sings. The voice is honest, pleasant, but nothing special. Yet when Georges Brassens sings, all Paris cocks...
From Addis Ababa last week, TIME Correspondent James Bell cabled: "His face as sadly impassive as that of a Byzantine saint. His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I rose from a straight-back chair in his paneled library as I bowed into the room. As we shook hands before a large window overlooking a garden, a peacock screamed and a large lion walked by on the lawn. Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign...