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...like something from a World War II movie.” Determined not to “let them write [her] into their script,” she locks herself in a bathroom stall with only a book of poetry to read and a roll of toilet paper to write on. Her actions, absurdly juxtaposed with her basic need for survival, are both pointless and profound—but then again, so are those she sees outside. “I thought: the vanity of writing, the vanity of destruction,” she says. “I thought...
...prisoners weren't the only ones living in fear. Junior officers barely opened their mouths. Ranking officers like Moyo would not grant me permission to visit the toilet or brush my teeth without approval from their superiors. "I am just a worker," I heard the police-station chief say. "There are people above me." The jailers' anxiety about their bosses made them even more determined to demand respect from their prisoners. Moyo considered my demand for a lawyer insulting. "I am educated," he said. "And you do not cooperate." The walls of his office made clear that the regime...
...Well, first of all that they will be grabbed by the story, and not be able to leave, even to go to the toilet. But it is as important that among the dark, shadowy, deceitful betrayals the movie says there is something positive to build upon. I think that the fact that two people, one of them an anti-Semitic Communist and the other a Jewish girl, come together at the end and do this thing - killing the common enemy - says that although things will never be completely OK, there are moments that are OK enough...
...engaged in "an epic struggle for survival." Everything he told the public reflected "a realistic and balanced view of the facts as I understood them," he says, although they turned out to be wrong. He himself was buying shares throughout the period that the company was going down the toilet. He agreed with a friendly television interviewer who declared that "they" - meaning the government - "are criminalizing optimism...
LARRY PAGE, Google co-founder and president, in a statement for an April Fool's Day prank in which a link posted on Google's home page connected to a site that supposedly offered consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems; Google called the program "Toilet Internet Service Provider...