Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social Services, Mary White and her eight children have been living in two rooms on the fourth floor of the Hamilton for two years. The apartment is a horror. In the bathroom, peeling paint drips leaking water from the toilet in the bathroom above; a film of water containing feces gleams dully on the floor. Roaches and other bugs swarm over the walls, the bathtub and sink. A rotting pipe in the corner has a dual purpose: it doubles as the children's "tree;" because Mary is afraid to allow the children outside, the youngsters' occasionally exercise...
...calls them in the small hours of the morning with pungent advice, such as her 2 a.m. blast to the Arkansas Gazette: "I want you to crucify Ful-bright?and that's that." She has been known to use the blue wall phone in the privacy of the bathroom "so that John won't know," enabling detractors to insinuate that she sometimes takes a drink or two too many. Martha's friends, however, insist that her midnight telephonitis is nothing but her lifetime habit of speaking her mind on the instant...
...black police activism has exacerbated an uneasy relationship between blacks and whites wearing blue. Renault Robinson's caricature, captioned with obscenities, adorns the bathroom walls of more than one Chicago station house. In Omaha last year, after Officer John Loder, son of Actress Hedy Lamarr, was accused of killing a 14-year-old black girl, white officers started a defense fund for Loderwhile black police took up a collection for the girl's family. (Loder was acquitted...
...American spy, of an agent of the dictatorship, of a police torturer, of a fascist personality, or a stool pigeon, police agent or provocateur." To finance revolutionary endeavors, he suggests robbing banks; trying not to overlook anything, he goes so far as to advise "locking people in the bank bathroom, making them sit on the floor." For the urban guerrilla's arsenal, Marighella recommends "Molotov cocktails, gasoline, homemade contrivances such as catapults and mortars for firing explosives, grenades made of tubes and cans, smoke bombs, mines, conventional explosives, plastic explosives, gelatine capsules...
...summer after that ominous beginning, I worked with a bunch of pretty healthy young Canadian kids, went to California, and returned, my feelings about mankind 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 girl...