Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mountainsides and nestle in wooded ravines. They offer a hodgepodge of winding exterior stairways, overhanging balconies and thatched roofs with soaring pitches. The interiors are equally daring. Polished steam engines serve as stoves; old windshields make unorthodox solariums. In fact, these houses have everything but the basics. The bathroom is often an outhouse. Electricity and central heating are rare. But there is more to life than utilities, or so say the owner-builders, who value the karma of self-expression over the convenience of plumbing. "A hand-hewed home is to a preconstructed one what fresh-baked bread...
Dartmouth weekend has always made me queasy. It has always ended unhappily, leaving me drinking myself into insensibility over another football loss at a party I didn't want to go to, retching liquor I didn't want to drink in some bathroom I didn't want to remember. It has been like that ever since I have been here. It is not a pleasant memory...
Still, the readjustment to gravity was not always easy. Lousma, for example, accidentally let a bottle of aftershave lotion smash on the bathroom floor when he momentarily forgot that he could no longer let the bottle hang in midair, as he could in the zero gravity aboard Skylab. Garriott had an even more unusual experience; he lost his balance on his first evening back home when his wife turned off the lights as they were going upstairs to bed. "I can't stand up unless I have a visual reference," he complained. Helen Garriott flicked the lights back...
...stomping around his rooms, chomping his cigar, stark naked. West recalls Harry Truman's unreconstructed Southern mother's downright refusal to sleep in Lincoln's bed. Lyndon Johnson's specially installed, multinozzled, Texas-strength shower nearly knocked the newly elected Nixon clear out of the bathroom...
...King of Hearts has tied up Central Square Cinema II. Visitors to the Harvard Square and Brattle theaters are subjected again and again and again to the same promotional short for King of Hearts. At Harvard Square you can escape the ad by running off to the bathroom, but at Brattle that takes too long so you're forced to sit it out. Meanwhile, the selection of films at other Cambridge theaters grows slimmer...