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Sharks are the guards and ocean waves the walls at Mexico's Islas Tres Marias prison camp, a trio of tiny, sun-baked islands about 70 miles off Mexico's west coast. The 1,072 inmates sweat out their lives in dazzling white salt pits, tend henequen fields and weave rope. They live in straw-roofed huts; there are no iron bars, but escape is next to impossible. In cells at Mexico City's Black Palace Prison, coldhearted murderers weep like little children at the prospect of banishment to the Three Marys...
There is really very little one can say about sweaters that isn't obvious. The original definition more closely fits what is known as a sweat shirt today. At one time, sweaters were considered mostly for men. That's out today. One instinctively thinks of a woman in a sweater...
Contrary to rumors circulated each spring, Winthrip is not full of athletes who eat dinner in sweat shirts and spend their time figuring odds on the big games of the day. This group, however, makes up a larger portion of residents than in most Houses...
Three days after his lightning army coup (TIME, March 17), Strong Man Fulgencio Batista moved last week from his Camp Columbia headquarters to the presidential palace in downtown Havana. His white linen suit soaked with sweat, his voice hoarse with fatigue, the "Chief of the Revolution" sat at his old presidential desk for the first time in seven years, greeting job seekers, delegations of sugar planters, union leaders and the press. Tired as he was, he grinned a big victor's smile...
...scene, a persecuted saint in another. The husband moves from cowardice to stoicism, but it is the bandit who really presents a gem of an acting performance. In his own version, especially, he is a cunning beast; oozing with braggadocio. Only half-clothed, his grimy torso shimmers with sweat as he embraces the woman with iron arms and presses his face to her fainting body. In all of his scenes, the bandit in his earthy way makes Rashomon a brilliant dramatic performance...