Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, I was at Washington, looking hard for a bathroom, but when I found it. I noticed that it was out of order. I sensed catastrophe. Failure to find a bathroom would no doubt be a factor in my ability to stay on the subways for 19 consecutive hours. On the bright side, this search for facilities helped to some extent to take my mind off the time...
...seems that the National Lampoon staff culled the poorest of secondary school bathroom graffiti to paste together their April issue. Nevertheless, a few rays of brilliance do shine through. In Stephen Kaplan's "White House Heartbreak." which appears in comic-book form, David Eisenhower begs his wife Julie to sleep with him. Julie is reluctant: "But what about my reputation? The newspapers... And Daddy's career? What if... What if I had a BABY!?" David comforts his bride, and while they embrace he assures her "Don't worry honey, I take those pills every...
...afraid. In Tulsa Dad worked on a derrick and when he came home he was covered with black oil. His hands. Did he know who I was? Did Dad know Merilee had set up house in the shower stall behind the shower curtain in the bathroom? To his wife Ada he said "One more crack like that and as sure as your ass is brown this boy is gone gone gone...
Education programs are of no use to children who are already using drugs. "They can keep showing those movies in school for ten or 20 years and the kids are going to keep snooting up in the bathroom," says an 18-year-old New Yorker who has been on drugs most of his teen-age life. "When I was shooting up, I liked to read about other junkies in the papers. It fed my sickness. I liked to hear about the ODs [overdose cases], and I'd think I was brave for taking it." For kids on junk...
...stores, a bank, an antique shop and a cheese market. There is also an all-purpose Mr. Fixit shop in which customers can have new heels put on their shoes, keys copied or initials engraved on jewelry. For $1, weary travelers can get a shower in a fully equipped bathroom presided over by a woman attendant whom French Poet Jacques Prevert has nicknamed "Notre Dame des Lavabos"-Our Lady of the Washbasins...