Word: hallway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twins arrived at the San Diego hospital in 1977 after proving too bright for schooling designed for the mentally retarded. Shy and uncommunicative when first tested at the language clinic, the two little girls would rush into the hallway to compare notes after each session. Their talk, Clinic Director Chris Hagen told TIME Correspondent James Willworth, sounded "as if a tape recorder were turned on fast forward with an occasional understandable word jumping...
...identity. Ted is a cagey, unfeeling Madison Avenue adman who cares only about the big account he has just landed. Ted is so self-absorbed that he cannot believe that Joanna is really miserable enough to leave him. As she waits for the elevator in the hallway of the Kramers' East Side highrise, Ted talks only about himself. Finally he tries to yank the fragile Joanna back into their apartment, as if sheer force were enough to mend their split. "Please don't make me go in there," pleads Streep, her voice nearly a deathly whisper. She pulls...
...said his room, number 604 in the Embassy Row, is designed so that the door opens onto a narrow hallway with the closet at the end. He said his wallet was in his suit, which was hanging in the closet, and that his briefcase was next to the desk...
LIDDY STRODE stealthily down the carpeted hallway. He paused every few steps to make sure no one heard him. He felt carefully along the wall until his hand grasped a familiar object: a doorknob. He waited again, his chest heaving. He tried to control his breathing. From inside his plaid polyester sport jacket he drew a Mickey Mouse penlight--a gift from the gang in the Company after a memorable visit to Disneyland in 1971. He struggled with the door knob lock, employing his special tools fashioned from stolen forks. It was a motel-style lock, easily picked...
Back to the night. Where the wolf strains his eyes and sneezes through the dope smoke. The man opens the door; expanding clouds of pot smoke tumble out into the hallway two doors down from the senior tutor's apartment. The man enters the party. A panorama of naked wolves raise their hungry and wondrous eyes to him. It is dark and they are all seated on the floor, forming a circle and passing the pipe with an ambience of mysterious ritual. They toke and laugh and smile nervously as they apply their peripheral vision; some just roll back their...