Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This year the best he could do was top his Worst Dressed List with Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Referring to her chopped hair and flair for less than feminine attire, Blackwell, whose little-used first name is Richard, bitingly declared, "Her royal unisex wardrobe entitles her to use either bathroom." Then the clawing got cloying. No. 2 on the list was Joan Collins ("One more pushup and she'll have three chins"), and by the time he got to No. 10, he was reduced to savaging TV's Fall Guy Co-Star Heather Thomas as an "exploding, overstuffed cabbage...
Each "can group," as the mid-career students call themselves because of their use of the same bathroom facilities, features plush wall-to-wall carpeting; a large and comfortable modern sofa and a complete bar and television set hidden away behind wooden wall cabinets. In addition, each living group is also a study group, going over sample cases and problems together. So on one side of the common room is a small business-like conference table and a blackboard for the group to use in order to work together each morning...
...acts of urinating and defecating on House premises, although unpleasant, are necessary because neither Ms. Martin nor any other member of our community has provided these men with proper facilities to relieve themselves. This is not to say that Ms. Martin ought to allow homeless people into her own bathroom, but that there is a reason for these actions--they can't go anywhere else...
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Malik rises slowly from his bed, his eyes half closed. With arms outstreched, as if holding a marionette, he walks down the hall, past the bathroom, and out the front door. In post-World War II Yugoslavia, sleepwalking was a very good way to escape from reality...
Michael heads for the bathroom again, going out without asking. Lori calls after him. The session winds up. The other children are putting away their Magic Markers. Lori calls, "Michael, you'd better be back in this room by the count of five." Michael re-enters at four, crushes a plastic cup under his heel, crumples his picture and throws it into the trash can. Lori stares at him. He runs toward Ralphy and slaps Ralphy's self-portrait out of his hand. He laughs, slams the door to the room from the inside. As the other children slip...