Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Living conditions are admittedly rugged: a shared hotel room, rats, no bath tub, and electric power for perhaps two hours out of 24 in the boonies. Applicants, worried about tropical insects, are reassured that bugs and scorpions are no special problem. What Viet Nam has in abundance, says Nurse Dorothy De Looff, just back from two years in Saigon, is lizards. "But you don't have to worry about them," she tells applicants. "They sing, they eat the insects and they're very friendly. You'll miss them when you come home...
...Eileen Atkins) is a long, pale taffy pull of a girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...
...When Howard refused to give them, he was packed off to the maximum-security ward, where prisoners get only two meals a day, are not permitted to work or earn money, are deprived of radio, TV and movies, denied access to the library and educational classes, and allowed one bath a week...
...entrenched downtown interests" in Los Angeles or the Kennedys-and no one has ever battled with him and come away unscathed. Back home in Los Angeles, Yorty called a press conference. Smiling as if he had just come from a health resort instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap" set by Bobby Kennedy as part of his "lavish campaign to build himself up and tear President Johnson down. He's trying to ride on his brother's fame and his father's fortune...
Given the presence of a Cockney Casanova, Alfie's plot predictably unreels more like a score card than a scenario. Among the standard items is the eager middle-aged nymph (Shelley Winters) who entertains Alfie in a big bath tub. One of the more pathetic entries is the hen-shaped wife of a sick friend-they take char together, and then Alfie makes a grab at the old girl, just to "round off the tea nicely." And then there is the nubile nurse (Shirley Anne Field)-while Alfie is recuperating from overexertion in a TB sanatorium, she comes round...