Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepare for the challenge. "I knew I would be taking care of a boy who would not be able to reach doorknobs, refrigerator handles, light switches and the sink for years and years. Even now, he uses baby chairs and desks for homework and a stool to reach the bathroom sink...
...lumbered to the bathroom and stared uncertainly into the mirror. What stared back was . . . was . . . was it Thomagata, the one-eyed, four-eared Colombian god of thunder, chastened by his encounter with the sun-god Bochica? Or was it Chonchonyi, the revolting, bloodsucking god of Chile with the long, flapping ears? Shuddering, I stepped into the shower. As the hot, healing liquid bathed my shoulders, I felt like . . . like . . . like Kappa, the solemn little Japanese water demon, renowned for his punctilious manners. Or perhaps like Ahto, the water god of the ancient Finns, who lived under a sea cliff...
...million by the year 2010. Current facilities cannot handle the crush. Use has also brought abuse: people may visit the parks to get away from it all, but they bring civilization's discontents with them. Popular parks spend more than half their budgets on chores like garbage patrols and bathroom maintenance...
Teachers expect certain challenges when they sign on in New York City schools, but contending with knife-wielding assailants is not among them. A teacher in the Bronx was stabbed more than a dozen times by a mugger in an elementary school bathroom last month; another was savagely beaten with a bat after confronting a playground intruder; a third was badly injured by a powerful firecracker thrown into her classroom; a fourth was slugged by a student who objected to being asked to put out his cigarette...
...strut. She lopes easily from City Sadie, the bitch goddess who spits out orders to her lab scientists ("Get tougher rats!"), to Country Sadie, struggling with her press-on nails ("I guess I should've pressed harder") and giddy with her first sip of high life in a Plaza bathroom ("Cute little soaps in the shape of swans! Could you die!"). Tomlin plays the Roses, but Midler is a fistful of Daisys: Miller, Buchanan and Mae. She is more than High Concept. As a movie star, even in this efficient little comedy, Bette is heaven in high heels...