Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatly. Tuchman finds herself listening with American ears, seeing through American eyes, and even smelling with an American nose. In concluding a description of harsh rural reality, she suddenly moves from the size of garden plots to a description of a "privy"--just one more victim of the American Bathroom Syndrome. She defines deficiencies in terms of American excesses. She even goes so far as to judge the inflections of Chinese music, a dangerous task when crossing cultural lines...
...reusable flushing substance: "We needed an oil-like fluid that was lighter than water, that would be readily separable from water and that had a very low solubility for most components in human waste." The perfect product turned out to be very like one that was in the bathroom cabinet all along: mineral...
...prison official to a lavishly catered sojourn at the Kona Kai, a San Diego club controlled by Smith. Another time Tony Alessio hosted a fishing trip for a guard and three of his friends that ended with a surprise bonus: two nude prostitutes who came dancing out of the bathroom in their motel suite...
...easily attached to the phone, a user can reach any one of 38 numbers. Besides its speed and convenience, the Name Caller provides a foolproof way for a baby sitter to phone police, firemen or the family doctor in an emergency. The gadget-about the size of a small bathroom scale-has been available for only four months in seven major markets, including New York City and Los Angeles, and already more than 50,000 have been sold at prices from...
Sato's only complaint is the lack of space in the IAB for women's lockers. She dresses for meets in a bathroom, and keeps her clothes in the swimming office...