Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American bathroom, ever a target for European wits and soreheads, has a host of enthusiasts as well; none is more outspoken than Critic Edmund Wilson, who once said: "I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions ... in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral." That sort of affection seems to run in the family. Mary McCarthy, who was wed to Wilson for eight years, has hailed the bathroom half-ironically as the "last fortress of the individual, the poor man's club, the working girl's temple...
Like Fairyland. Designers such as Sherle Wagner of Manhattan and David Hicks of London stand ready to transform an ordinary bathroom into a soapy nirvana. "Today's bathroom," says Wagner, "is an escape area from these times of tension. It has become a spa at home." Most of Wagner's customers spend between $250 and $2,500 to renovate and redecorate their bathrooms, and the emphasis is on the higher end of that scale. "You can do a very very beautiful bathroom for $2,500," says Wagner. One customer has ordered a carved marble tub measuring...
Hicks, whose book, David Hicks on Bathrooms, is a basic text on the subject, believes that bathrooms should be "elegant and practical." His idea of simplicity is reflected in his designs for the small bathroom of Mrs. Harilaos ("Betsy") Theodoracopulos. He specified mirrors on walls and ceilings to "stretch the room out and at the same time heighten it." For surfaces, he used scrubbed stone "because of its rough, aggressive element which contrasts with the smoothness of the mirror." Many of the wall mirrors conceal storage closets. To Mrs. Theodoracopulos, the bathroom is "like fairyland...
...service in 1949, Scott enrolled in the University of Missouri as a journalism student. He had been writing since he was eight years old, and by the time he went into the Marines, his father says, he had "enough rejection slips from the Saturday Evening Post to paper the bathroom wall." That much writing on the wall convinced even Scott. Then, one day, he spotted a notice on the college bulletin board announcing auditions for The Winslow Boy. He bought a copy of the play, memorized every line of it, and won the lead...
...affected area stayed home on the first day schools reopened; some, including Charisse, agreed to return only if their parents drove them to and from school. Says Secretary Joyce Shahin of her seven-year-old son: "He has got very clingy-he wants me to sit in the bathroom and talk while he takes a bath, and he wants to sit on the same chair with me." Afflicted adults show extreme exhaustion, an unusual need for emotional support, and inability to sleep...