Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expired" flag snaps into view on the executive's desk, warning the visiting salesman that his pitch time is over. Another red flag goes up in a Chicago teen-ager's room, warning her that she has tied up the family telephone long enough. In the guest bathroom of another Chicago home, the flag reminds a partygoer that others may be waiting. In each case the red metallic flag is enclosed in a device that looks suspiciously like a parking meter. Actually...
Hopper's life was doubly isolated after marriage. Jo briskly set herself up as his defense against the world. During the rare interviews that Hopper granted, she did most of the talking. Once, excusing herself to go to the bathroom, she warned Hopper...
...lived Bobbie day and night. I turned into the slob Bobbie is. Between takes I just sat in my dressing room and stared at the wall. When I got back to the hotel at night, I put on my bathrobe and walked back and forth in the bathroom. I felt depressed, all the time depressed. So vulnerable, so betrayed. Mike and Jack kept me going. One day I couldn't cry when I should have and Jack said horrible things about Bobbie until I burst into tears...
...contradiction I am trying to describe: one brother in my cell, after chanting with the rest of us. "WE WANT LUNCH" for ten minutes, and after having asked for an hour for permission to please be able to go to the bathroom, and being refused and then ignored, finally screamed: "YOU CAN'T TREAT US LIKE THIS. WE'RE MIDDLE CLASS...
...summer after that ominous beginning, I worked with a bunch of pretty healthy young Canadian kids, went to California, and returned, my feelings about man-kind altogether revived. Within one week of my arrival back in Cambridge, I went innocently to take a midnight bath in the third floor bathroom of Barnard Hall. There before me I found an absolutely unknown naked man masturbating in the tub. Go ahead and laugh, if you like. Of course there's something a bit comical about the scenario, shades of Portnoy or of Bruce Jay Friedman. Even more comical to remember that some...