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...jury: a clipping of a comic-strip version of an Old Testament episode that Little had used as a bookmark in her Bible, which was found after the killing. The clipping, which prosecutors insist they have never seen, showed an Israelite woman, Jael, luring an enemy into her tent, then driving a nail into his head while he slept. The fact that the prosecution did not use the strip, contended Paul, a persistent court critic, only bolstered his cynicism. Given an undistinguished prosecutor and a clever defense attorney with money, a trial, Paul says, can become a "charade...
...diaphanous blue caftan, she shimmies across the stage of Manhattan's Ambassador Theater in a rhythmic roll that more than matches her vocal size. Me and Bessie, Hopkins' nearly one-woman musical revue (she is backed up by two dancers), recalls the history of Bessie Smith, from tent singer to Empress of the Blues...
...after driving all day through dairy lands, north into lakes and woods, we pulled into a little campground (which doubled as a chain saw outlet and vendor of used snowmobiles) a mile or so outside the proud community of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Three dollars for a little plot for the tent, a picnic table, and a bunch of rocks in a circle to start a fire in, a fire which I later couldn't get started because of wet wood, an episode ending in a most unwoodsman-like display of burned fingers, smoldering copies of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and constant invocations...
...that headed down the coast toward Walvis Bay were swamped by breakers or foundered on the rocks of a coastline notorious for shipwrecks. As of last week, only 14 boats, carrying about 300 refugees, had struggled to safety in Walvis Bay. The South African government has set up army tent towns as reception centers for the refugees. As quickly as possible the exiles are shunted on to Windhoek or Walvis Bay for air and sea passage back to Portugal...
...annual dues of only $300, members are allocated space in a "security building" to store a year's cache of dehydrated food for each individual in the family; the payment also provides for an ample supply of water, access to electricity and even a place to pitch a tent...