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Actually, the author's first New York City apartment in the 1950s was a walk-down: the "back half of a basement" with one room and a toilet down the hall. There this shy, Catholic girl from a small town in Rhode Island would sit "cross-legged on my studio couch, Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the phonograph" and feel "joy exploding in my chest. Because from this house I emerge every morning into the place my father promised would be mine one day. The place where there'd be lots of people like...
...third of the country's 2 million Native Americans live below the poverty line. On the reservations, where per capita income averages $4,500, half of all children under age six live below the line; 1 out of every 5 Indian homes lacks both a telephone and an indoor toilet. Federal expenditures that reach the tribes are low enough as it is: according to Stearns, the government spends $2,600 a year for the average American's health, but the average for Indians' is only...
...described the fierce gamesmanship between him and his captors. "I was in a small room, only 4 sq m [43 sq. ft.]. These young guards were with me all the time." To gain the tiniest measure of privacy, he shamed them into letting him close the door of the toilet (though they peered through a peephole) and stared at them in the mirror over a small desk until "they think I use the mirror to watch them, so they remove it." He then began writing tiny notes to record the details of what would become 66 days in captivity. Some...
...many moons ago, Tom Arnold's Hollywood career was so deep in the toilet you could hear the water running in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. It was bad enough that Roseanne, his soon-to-be ex, had fired him as executive producer of her eponymous ABC-TV hit series. Then, after she and he had grabbed five years of scandal-sheet headlines as a white-trash version of Taylor and Burton, Roseanne had filed for divorce, badmouthing Arnold as a no-talent wife beater, a charge he denied. And thanks to the successive failure of two dud TV sitcoms...
...phone and a bathroom, something that a UPS driver wouldn't ordinarily do. This accomplished, they then moved on to the compound itself to try the same plan again. This time, Koresh and another member, David Jones, met them at the gate. Jones was carrying a roll of toilet paper...