Word: dungeons
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...during a brief respite in the Haitian War of Independence, French officers sought a meeting with recently retired Haitian General Toussaint L’Overture. Under false pretenses, Toussaint was arrested and forced aboard a waiting frigate bound for France. He died of neglect in the Fort de Joux dungeon nine months later. This was the first forced regime change in Haitian history...
...rate Kurt Weill who wrote most of Marlene Dietrich's most famous ballads. Most of the tunes are bright and cynical in the Berliner fashion: the perky "Get-Together Weather"; a mock school song for Terwilliker Academy; an elevator song as a guard takes the prisoners to the dungeon and itemizes the evils, floor by descending floor, like a department-store employee. There's also an aching ballad - "Because We're Kids," performed by Rettig - that encapsulates, like no other song I know, the frustration of the young at the power that grownups capriciously wield over them...
...would lose its power to excite.) To reconcile the icons with the actual practice, I spent several weeks recently talking to SM practitioners around the U.S.--in New York City and San Francisco, yes, but also in North Carolina and New Mexico. Whether they were nervous novices or experienced dungeon masters leading some of the nation's 250 SM organizations, virtually all of them asked for anonymity. One man said he had lost a job when his boss found directions to a bondage workshop in his office. Others said they would be embarrassed if their families learned of their proclivities...
...moral imperative of gaining Yang’s liberty is self-evident. But as Fu’s remark subtly underscores, his case is larger than one brave man’s ordeal in a PRC dungeon. It involves the value of American citizenship and permanent residency—or, more precisely, the degree to which the State Department defends citizens and U.S. nationals from injustice, harassment and arbitrary detention abroad...
...This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop albums of the year. Country singer Cash ... is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. 'We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dungeon,' he says, 'and they're not ashamed to respond' ... Cash ... sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck ... The Folsom album was made when Cash, after six years of trying, finally convinced Columbia Records that one of his prison visits would make a successful...