Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...
...goes to a furniture dealer's crammed house where "chairs stood on couches that lay on tables" and conversation went on while people bounced up and down on spring mattresses or were hidden behind columns of chairs. At length the young man found himself in a locked bathroom with a girl trying to lure him into the tub with her. Here an evening that has bubbled nostalgically and caromed and swayed explodes into gorgeous nonsense...
...impresarios established their first office in a bathroom. A friend had agreed to let them use his tony Manhattan address provided that they kept out of the way, so they installed the phone in a spare bath. In this austere retreat the opera company took shape. Backers were found, some of whom were in the Social Register, and most of them owned awnings. The company's first production was Monteverdi's 300-year-old Coronation of Poppea, performed in a Fifth Avenue drawing room for an audience...
...desk, asked in a whisper how much longer Strom would last. Back came the answer: "About another hour." Goldwater asked that Thurmond temporarily yield the floor to him for an insertion in the Congressional Record. Thurmond happily consented-and used the few-minute interim to head for the bathroom (for the only time during his speech). He returned and began talking again. His promised hour passed; Strom spoke on. Gallery attendance dropped to three: Thurmond's wife Jean, N.A.A.C.P. Washington Representative Clarence Mitchell, and an unidentified man who was snoring softly...
...Bath Is a Bath. "Good taste." for Ponti, evidently has as much to do with sense as with sensibility. "Design." he says, "must have style that is a style of its own, dictated by its function-not a style copied from the past. A frequent error is designing a bathroom too luxuriously. A bath is a bath, and not a luxury. Everything in the bathroom must work perfectly. When I wash my hands, my two forearms converge towards the middle of the basin, and what I want is not the vision of a rectangle, but a place to put down...