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Lose the Tevas, un-tuck the Levi’s from your hiking socks, and re-acquaint yourself with a little thing we like to call a shower. (FM recommends L’Occitane’s full line of bath and body products...
Quick. Brainstorm themes for a typical tap-dancing number—cane and all—in a musical comedy. A night on the town? Sure. A suspenseful mystery? Possibly. A new love? Absolutely. But a sponge bath number in a nursing home, sung and danced by a man doomed to die in minutes? One would think not. Luckily for Harvard theatergoers, the writers of the original musical “The Life and Deaths of Mr. Plumb”—Michael C. Mitnick ’06, Robert M. Pennoyer ’05, and Kiernan...
...went straight from Oscar winner (The Deer Hunter) to studio wrecker (Heaven's Gate). Neither honor was deserved. Indeed, Heaven's Gate was the better film, with a certain suicidal grandeur about it, like a herd of buffalo stampeding toward a firing squad. United Artists took a $44 million bath on the film and within a year was absorbed by rival MGM. Now, in a delicious triple irony, Final Cut, a UA executive's memoir of the debacle, wins raves; Ted Turner agrees to buy MGM/UA; and the studio releases Cimino's new melodrama...
Twenty years ago, universal-design products had that telltale institutional look. Safety features on today's sleek kitchen-and-bath accessories are undetectable, even chic, like $300 brushed-aluminum and satin-gold grab bars--just in case you need to steady your balance in the shower. And there's a growing cadre of home-building professionals with expertise in strategies and techniques for producing attractive homes that won't seem as if they've been tailor-made for someone with physical disabilities. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) sponsors Certified Aging in Place Specialists (CAPS) training for contractors, architects...
...other unsavory hot spots, the sound of civilization was Penny's marvelous, sprightly voice. But another thing that Penny knew was when work could wait. She once instructed a distraught correspondent, who had both a deadline and a screaming infant to contend with, to give the child a bubble bath and come back to the story later. Penny showed us all how to balance professionalism with parenthood: her young son Joseph would dart around the office for a few hours every Saturday, invariably dressed as Spiderman...