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...Nobody can tell me today that the world is in good shape," he says, "because everybody is crying inside. The only reason I know that is because I cry inside. I'm no different emotionally from anyone else." Indoors and hopefully on tape, Meyreles plans to continue with upbeat music and antics. But his experimentation with one-man "music/theater" in "Comparable Jones"--an original, which deals with the personal battle against addictions of all kinds--signifies an attempt to wrestle with suffering in a more direct, less frivolous way. "One of the things I'd like to do with this...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...been on the job only 14 months. Yet shortly before he died, he had told a police friend that two prison supervisors were making illegal profits from their jobs and that there was large-scale fraud in the prison furniture shop. Moreover, he had given his fiancee tape recordings of prison conversations that she had locked up in a safe deposit box. State and federal investigators listened to the tapes but refused to reveal their contents. Declares Guard Ken Mock, 38: "I have no doubt that Gerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hellhouse Becomes a Madhouse: New Mexico State Penetentiary | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...level ("Able was I ere I saw Elba" is the best known of these), Kim goes on to write about word-palindromes (his example is "So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so") and, most fascinating of all, phonetic palindromes, which sound the same run backwards through a tape-recorder ("we revere you" and "ominous cinema" are Kim's two examples...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Trick or Treat | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

...defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing The Ear | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Most electronic security systems include the use of "Tattle Tape," a sensitive strip concealed in bindings that sets off an alarm if it is smuggled past a checkpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Light-Fingered Bibliophiles | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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