Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin H. Peretz, master of South House, said the addition of suites will help South House better accommodate students who have been asked to live in the Quad Houses against their will in recent years and who desire an alternative to the single-bedroom, communal-bathroom lifestyle in the Quad dormitories...
...making a three-and-a-half hour film that doesn't make a moral point or offer a strong emotional appeal. He is constantly teasing the audience about its desire for an easy way out. At one point Marie (Bernadette Lafont) quietly gets up and goes into the bathroom where she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, and Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Leaud) panics. When, later on, Alexandre himself gets up and goes to the medicine cabinet, you expect him to do something equally dramatic--to slash his wrists, for example. Instead he sprays his face with cologne...
...white and one black, both wearing cartridge belts. The heat was so intense that the bullets were exploding. Later, when the flames had died down and the little house had collapsed into 4 ft. of debris, police found three more bodies clustered in what had once been the bathroom. All were wearing tear-gas masks, and in the ruins, police found a formidable arsenal that included six sawed-off shotguns, one automatic rifle and two submachine guns. As the five bodies were removed in brown rubber bags, one of the witnesses who stood by, staring at the smoking rubble...
...years. He is happiest, however, tinkering with his $50,000 model railroad: 250 freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs through the living room, across the sun deck, through the sauna, a bathroom and a bedroom, and then out onto a trestle high above the rear patio...
...help, none was more pitiful than Almira Stampp. When Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father was in jail for a murder the child had witnessed). She became one of the school...