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LADYHOUSE BLUES by Kevin O'Morrison...
...fishing and sailing since there are only 250 single servicewomen on the base. Navy Chief Jim Starr explains why his wife and two teenage daughters are delighted with Gitmo: "We haven't been together this long since 1959." The climate is particularly popular with many Americans. Says Nieta Morrison, wife of the base's executive officer: "I feel like I'm on a vacation." Agrees Base Commander Captain John H. Fetterman Jr.: "It's nice and sunny all the time." But, he adds, "we live in an arena where we have to be alert...
...Didion's pieces, the players of the late '60s and the '70s come back in their vivid dementia: Hell's Angels, Jim Morrison and the Doors, Huey Newton, Bishop James Pike. Charles Manson peers in at the window. Linda Kasabian, the star prosecution witness against Manson, recruited Didion at one point to go to I. Magnin in Beverly Hills and buy her a dress for court: "Size 9 Petite. Mini but not extremely mini. In velvet if possible." Didion and Roman Polanski turn out to be godparents to the same child...
...coped with an elevator wall, and the carpeted interior of my dormitory which made loud noises when I walked upon it. The walls of my room swirled around and around, dilating and breathing, their bright colors and strange poster faces lulling my consciousness--the face of Jim Morrison peered in on me from an album cover, still and refracted, inviting me to his morbid dance with a grim smile and doll's eyes...
Four and a half hours later, as it steamed north to England, Shepherd was intercepted by a Portuguese destroyer and ordered back to Oporto. There Watson found that one of his crew, Richard Morrison, 27, of Boston, had been bashed on the head in a waterfront scuffle with Sierra crewmen and was hospitalized with a severe concussion. The Sierra sailors, many of them South Africans, were detained, but at week's end most had been discharged, and any legal action about the skirmishing on land or sea was still...