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...shown that seemingly hopeless cases can benefit from professional attention. The girls spend their days sitting, standing or lying in a large, marble-floored room that resembles Sar tre's vision of hell. Bare and highceilinged, its walls covered with flaking green paint, the room is redolent of sweat, urine, excrement-and despair. Many of the patients are incontinent; the few attendants are kept busy changing them or putting clothes back on those who keep tearing them off. There is no time left to carry out rehabilitation programs. "It just kills me," says one attendant...
...some graceful lines, including his defense of the nation's essential goodness. Said he: "Let us reject the narrow visions of those who tell us that we are evil because we are not yet perfect; that we are corrupt because we are not yet pure; that all the sweat and toil and sacrifice that have gone into the building of America were for naught because the building is not yet done...
...popularity by imposing harsh fiscal measures -including a 48% currency devaluation last month-to rescue an economy still reeling from the extravagances of the Nkrumah era. The real question now, however, was whether Acheampong would be able to handle the economy as well. Even while calling upon Ghanaians to "sweat" and sacrifice, he increased the pay of lower-ranking civil servants and lowered basic food prices to their pre-devaluation levels with the help of a huge government subsidy...
Throughout all this, Flip constantly takes time out to attend to details ordinarily left to stagehands-testing the door chimes on a set or making sure that a champagne-bucket prop is positioned correctly. Because of his painstaking approach, the show is known as something of a sweat for guests. Outside performers on the Carol Burnett or Glen Campbell shows can get away with a three-day commitment; Dean Martin's guests have been known not to see him until the day of the show. But Flip insists on a five-day schedule for his guests as well...
...wants to terrify the virtuous, make the thugs feel good, and give everyone else a charge. For, if you force yourself to look at that bursting foot, or Amy's bloodied face, or the battle shots of a fagged-out David taking one final swipe with a poker--cold sweat is the appropriate response...