Word: basement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe students could not even eat in the River Houses, Rosenblum recalls. "There is no doubt we were being treated as second-class citizens," she says. "When you had to eat lunch in the basement of Mem Church, it was a degradation." An even more pressing issue for Radcliffe women in the Yard was the lack of women's bathrooms, she adds...
...curtailed some projects. Declares James Summers, a radiation safety officer at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: "If we can't get rid of the stuff, we're going to have to cut back on research and testing; we can't just fill up the basement...
...sirloin steak. Displayed at specially constructed counters were some 8,000 items of U.S. goods from 145 companies. For the next two months, Boatique America will be a floating U.S. trade fair as it visits 13 different Japanese ports, selling a cornucopia of wares at prices that are bargain-basement by Japanese standards. The goal is not so much to make a quick killing as to introduce American goods to the Japanese people...
Nonetheless, Vonnegut's messages emerge from beneath the overplayed Harvard motif and a typically bizarre plot. Starbuck's biggest claim to fame, for example, amounts to a piddling job in the Nixon administration as the President's Special Advisor on Youth Affairs. His office, hidden in the dank basement of the White House, becomes the resting place for large sums of illicit Watergate pay-off money, and when the break-in and cover-up arrests are made, he is duly escorted to a minimum-security prison in Georgia--undergoing the pains of prison minus the Watergate infamy...
...Letters is his middle-age-crisis objectified into a monstrosity. No one can fault Barth for wasting a decade of his life on it, if he just had to get it off his chest. But it's the kind of book a more discreet author would bury in his basement, for posthumous publication alone.JOHN BARTH...