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...know you will write the book and I know some people will listen to you-but I just hope you can make them feel prison from the inside. I hope you can make them feel how the time ticks away on you here and how no matter how hard you try to maintain yourself and some degree of independence and self-respect, the daily process eats away your spirit. I have always thought of myself as a pretty strong and open woman, but this joint has taken some of my gentleness, some of my womanhood. Kitsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dwight Correctional Center | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...comes. The pencils of a dozen candidates and watchers crowded around make another mark next to Al's name on the sheets where they're tallying the redistribution. "We're getting plenty but maybe you could use some more votes. We'd slip a few extra ones in for you-but there's witnesses," A Vellucci backer jokes with another candidate...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: The Long Count; PR Votes in Cambridge | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

...dependence on U.S. financial aid, Ayub threatened: "We are pressing against you today as friends. If we make good, I think you will in some fashion get [your money] back. If we do not make good and if, heaven forbid, we go under Communism, then we shall still press against you-but not as friends." The "affluent" U.S., said Ayub, really has no choice: "You have to give it to us because so much is involved." It was plain talk-a blunt attempt to intervene in what is essentially a private U.S. argument-but it was delivered in cultured British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Unexpected Aid | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...fires warm for TV's Private Eye Peter Gunn, the blue-eyed sentimentalist who can whisper into the mike and convince a million televiewers that she is alone with each one of them. The songs may be old-They Didn't Believe Me, It's Always You-but the voice comes fresh and insinuating, husky with promise. Under the spotlight, the face may seem sad, even a bit tired, but most men look twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Men Look Twice | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...hope you will look on this letter not only as an invitation to you-but also as an invitation through you to your friends-to visit us whenever they are in New York City. (If these friends are men or women in the armed forces, a particularly warm welcome awaits them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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