Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the daily American experience. For better or for worse, the rest of the world learns what is in store for it by observing what happens in the United States: whether it be the latest scientific discoveries in space and medicine or the electric toothbrush in the bathroom; pop art or LSD; air conditioning or air pollution; old-age problems or juvenile delinquency...
...nothing incredible. You have been away on a business trip in Pittsburgh for a week. When you get home, a note from your wife on the door tells you to go to the refrigerator, where you find a chilled martini and another note, directing you to the guest bathroom, where a hot bath awaits you. A note on the towel reads: "You have the most exciting body I have ever seen. If you want to see for yourself why you are the most sensual man in the world, come to the bedroom." When you left home a week...
...recognizes her weakness, but apparently cannot do anything about it. Last week Martha Mitchell-using a phone in an upstairs bathroom so Attorney General John Mitchell wouldn't hear her-called a U.P.I, reporter to complain that "the academic society is responsible for all our troubles in this country. They don't know what's going on." John's reaction is a matter of conjecture, but a few days later, when a White House elevator door nearly closed on Martha, she was offered a Band-Aid. "What should I do with it," she asked...
...eight days of fighting, not one room remained unscarred. A rifle bullet smacked into the wall above my bed while I typed in the bathroom. I thought bathrooms were safe until a .50-cal. bullet smashed through a balcony into a fourth-floor room, penetrated the bathroom wall, shattered the mirror and landed, spent, in the bathtub. The hotel was indirectly pasted by Rudolph the Recoilless Rifle, a monstrous weapon stationed outside by the army. Every time Rudolph was fired, its deafening blast shattered one more of the windows in the lobby walls...
...CHOPIN once rescued us from having a flood in the bathroom.... I was sitting quietly working with Chopin when suddenly he stopped giving me music and appeared to be quite agitated. He started speaking in French. Eventually I realized that he was saying: 'Le bain va etre engloutie.' I rushed to the bathroom... the water was just about to come over...