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Jean-Jacques Rousseau would have loved it. A 48-hour, 120-man celebration of those most basic, elemental, primordial urges in man that civilization tries to contain or closet: physical violence, alimental satiation, orgiastic intoxication and boisterous, lustful fellowship...
...Just as it glossed over his politics, it trivialized his ordeal. It reduced patriotism and exile to clumsy propaganda. The suicide of his friend, Yelizaveta Voronyanskaya, who told the KGB where to find the author's manuscripts, became a spy movie stereotype in which the Russian Nasties smashed the Closet Capitalists. In short, by blowing Solzhenitsyn beyond proportion and then dropping him from sight, the press created a hero who cannot inspire us and obscured the human being who might otherwise have moved...
...back page, the use of "behavior modification" in U.S. prisons. The example of Iowa was cited extensively. "When it was determined necessary to administer the drug," wrote the appeals court in the case, "the inmate was taken to a room near the nurses' station which contained only a water closet and there given the injection. He was then exercised and within about fifteen minutes he began vomiting. The vomiting lasted from fifteen minutes to an hour...
...ancient and honorable right of politicians to "raid the closet and steal the stovepipe hat," as Professor Donald puts it. But as he so often does in his moments of emotional oratory, Nixon seems to have gone beyond the bounds of fact and good taste. A sample of Lincoln scholars was appalled. "I'm outraged," said Donald. "I don't see a hell of a lot of parallel myself," said Historian Bruce Catton...
...problem boosting his product, despite its price (sandals, shoes and boots sell for between $23.50 and $42.50 per pair); buyers constantly tout the comfort of Earth Shoes. "They are about all we wear," says Malibu Housewife Joan Lloyd. "My corkie platforms are now just taking up room in the closet." Frank Palermo, 27, of Rye, N.Y., notes that his Earth Shoes did what four years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck in the belly...