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...until Friday afternoon could rescuers retrieve the bodies of three crew members who had been trapped inside the lead locomotive, buried in 15 feet of mud. Miraculously, some passengers managed to escape even from a car totally submerged in the bayou. Bill Crosson, 57, had grabbed his wife Vivian, 52, holding her down so she wouldn't be thrown about as the train fell into the swamp. Water then came rushing in. "It just filled so quickly," he says. "All I could think about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found an air pocket that gave them time enough...
...have enough printed acts at the T," said Vivian Kurkjian, a Cambridge resident who wrote a rap song protesting the proposed placement of monitors in the subway, known as the T. "These monitors are an intrusion in our lives," Kurkjian said...
...have a double goal," said committee member Lita Newdick, who became interested in gender discrimination at Harvard because of her daughter Vivian Newdick '89. "Getting more tenured faculty women and equality for women at all levels--also in the classroom, at the graduate level...Women at Harvard face sexism every...
During the same ceremony, the state's Phi Beta Kappa Iota Chapter will induct Hillary K. Anger of Dudley House, Sheryl A. Brandalik of Dunster House, Chi-An J. Chung of Winthrop House, Julie Cooper, Kristin J. Cummings and Vivian I. Linn of Adams House, Clare G. Crawford and Rebecca Suk of Eliot House, Amy L. Eisner of Mather House, Qing R. Fan of Cabot House, Clare S. Peeters of Kirkland House and Nadine D. Tanenbaum of Leverett House...
...violence and kitsch daintiness, belongs to the Chicago recluse Henry Darger (1892-1973). Darger's rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist has so far based anything in Darger, which is just as well; in today's America, he would be arraigned for child abuse...