Word: obsessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hanging in a Belfast jail, Irish. The whorehouse-declaimed by society as a sinful place-is inhabited by a gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their own particular moral code. Acutely aware of Ireland's volatile political atmosphere, they (with a few exceptions), nevertheless refuse to obsess themselves with politics. Several of them differ in race, nationality, class, and sexual preference, yet they express little prejudice. When the British prisoner enters their happy abide, the whorehouse tenants-to the outrage of the I.R.A. captors treat him with warmth and sympathy, their simple compassion out-weighs the national...