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...damage Lieutenant Governor James Green politically. When the capital paper pointed out that the state was paying for a private bathroom in the Lieutenant Governor's office, the country paper took a picture of the bathroom and published it. "I was ready to see a 30-ft.-sq. bath with sunken marble tub and gold fixtures, similar to the Roman baths," Windsor wrote. "What I found was a tiny room about 5 ft. by 7 ft. with a plain white lavatory and plain white tub, a toilet paper holder that does not work, and that is all. There...
BABY WITH THE BATH WATER...
...comedies have the flavor of Freud filtered through Groucho. In Beyond Therapy and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Durang, like so many writers of the TV generation, found it easier to crack neurotic one-liners than to tell a story. But in Baby with the Bath Water, at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, he wobbles toward a narrative. The play follows Daisy (impersonated first by a girl doll, then by a hairy young man) from terrifying infancy, mute childhood and promiscuous adolescence to touchingly optimistic parenthood...
...acres of coca are grown by Colombian farmers. Until 1980, José Antonio Monroy, 50, grew corn on his ten acres near San José del Guaviare, southeast of Bogota. Now he tends 15,000 coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste, Monroy nets...
...carpets came in all sizes. At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography near San Diego, the Queen stood on a soggy, bath-size red mat and watched, a bit warily, as an attendant coaxed a sea lion called Ushi over the edge of its tank. Scripps Director William Nierenberg, sounding more accusatory than he probably meant, declared, "You don't have sea lions in Britain." "And you very nearly didn't either," shot back Prince Philip, alluding to decades of unchecked hunting...