Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Curley's ghost must have had its Irish up last month when Boston's posh Copley Plaza Hotel ordered its maids to turn in their sloppy mops and go back to cleaning bathroom floors by hand. Outraged maids filed a labor grievance and threatened a walkout. Last week, under pressure from the hotel workers and other unions as well as the National Organization for Women, the Copley backed down...
ANOTHER very natural human activity is going to the bathroom. Unhappily, ours is a culture which encourages people to shut the door when they defecate, as though it were an unspeakable act. How sad. Until all people--Black, white, gay, straight, fat or thin--realize that they all shit alike, as co-equal members of the human race, how can we truly be free...
...tried sleeping accross the doorway to the bathroom so that anyone who entered would wake me up. One night I was awakened by my roommate. "AH HA!" I screamed, my tongue and limbs failing in all directions...
...course, he pretended he was just going to use the bathroom," and he called me a crazy nut. The fool! Did he think I could so easily be duped? I knew what he was up to. Obviously the person in charge of hair application in my home had arranged with my roommate to secretly carry on the tradition. I slept well that night...
...plot has holes you could drive Beth's station wagon through. (How does Alex get Ellen out of school? Why didn't the family dog bark when Alex breaks into the Gallagher house? Why can't Dan hear the final struggle a floor above him, and why does the bathroom tile floor leak water?) The threat to Ellen's pet rabbit can be smelled three reels away from payoff; that hare is high. Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic. And you needn't be a critic...