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More than 14 months after the Kennedy Library Corporation decided not to build its JFK memorial library on the MBTA Yard site across from Eliot House, the state has begun a search for a private company to develop 4.21 acres of the 12-acre tract...
...audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks." The author is as wry and bemused when he describes bones, the digestive tract or a kidney stone, "this small piece of gravel" in Pascal's phrase, that could bring down Oliver Cromwell and alter the course of history...
After Siegel had spent only a single night at the new sleep-wake clinic of New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Neurologist Elliot Weitzman's suspicions about him were confirmed; as soon as Siegel fell asleep, the functioning of the muscles of his upper respiratory tract became so impaired that breathing would come to a total halt for as long as a minute (doctors are uncertain whether excessive muscle relaxation or contraction is responsible). Then Siegel would awake with a start, and in his groggy state would gasp for air with a loud snore. The loud...
Whatever his other phobias, Hughes did not suffer from claustrophobia. His bedroom was the smallest on the penthouse floor. It measured only 15 by 17 feet ("infinite riches in a little room"), considerably smaller than the usual "master" bedroom in a low-priced tract house. Even this meager lebensraum was further cramped by stacks of newspapers and magazines...
...Fisk home is "basically a little tract house," converted by Jack and Sissy into something funkier. Now the place is full of skylights, doors, windows and, outside, a gigantic hot tub made of redwood and heated by gas. Says Spacek: "It's a good way to loosen people up at parties." Guests in the tub are most likely to be artists and sculptors from the neighborhood-the Fisks do not run with the movie crowd-and the house will be spanking clean the morning after a social occasion...