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...executions carried out by white-masked "firing squads" that clicked rifle bolts behind the backs of hostages spread-eagled against a wall. Iranian guards playing Russian roulette with revolvers held to the heads of two bound American women. Prisoners confined in basement cells where they were prevented from seeing sunlight for months, forced to sleep for weeks in the clothes they were wearing when captured, denied baths for as long as three months, afraid even to look at each other because their captors thought they might be exchanging eye signals...
...long as 16 hours a day, facing blank walls. Queen was imprisoned with a roommate, Joseph Hall, 31, the operations coordinator in the defense attaché's office, to whom he was not allowed to speak (though they did exchange whispers now and then). No sunlight penetrated the rooms. Said Queen: "You couldn't hear the outside world. It was like living in a tomb. I stayed in the Mushroom from late November to mid-March...
...pleasantly surprised. Despite the frigid and turbulent conditions--the race had been delayed till dusk--it proved an exhilirating moment. The last traces of sunlight scraped the horizon, and the sky grew pink, then azure, with the Boston skyline silhouetted in the background...
...come in an era of expensive energy. The south wall of the 24-story edifice looks like an upside-down staircase: each floor overhangs the one below, so that the top of the building sticks out 23 ft. farther than the bottom. This unusual construction helps block out sunlight on steamy summer afternoons, thus reducing the need for air conditioning. But during the winter, when the sun is lower in the southern sky, the warming rays will be able to shine into offices and provide natural heating...
...Agrarians were frowning on movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their Atwater Kent radios, take down that country fiddle from the wall and scrape out an Elizabethan air. Their best poet, John Crowe Ransom, magically evoked a land where larks' tongues are never stilled, "sunlight lies like pale spread straw" and ladies of "beauty and high degree" arrange jasmine in vases, as courtly gentlemen pace the veranda. "Turn your eyes to the immoderate past," Agrarian Allen Tate advised in his best poem, Ode to the Confederate Dead...