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...Exercise alters body chemistry in such a way that people end up burning more fat than usual. So a light snack after a workout is less likely to show up on the bathroom scales...
...attempted his first assassination. Catching the Jewish president of the Marks & Spencer department store chain, Joseph Edward Sieff, in the bathroom, Carlos aimed his gun at his prey's face and fired one shot. Sieff was spared when the bullet ricocheted off his teeth. Later, Carlos would say his gun had jammed. "I usually fire three times around the nose. But only one bullet went off." He also botched his second mission, aiming poorly as he tossed hand grenades into an Israeli bank. "This is not a very efficient terrorist," says Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism...
...shot with a bazooka at an El Al airliner parked at Orly Airport in January 1975, police rounded up Michel Moukharbel, Carlos' Lebanese adjutant. Moukharbel then led three unarmed policemen to a party where Carlos sat strumming a guitar. After chatting briefly, Carlos excused himself to go to the bathroom. He returned with a gun, killed Moukharbel and two of the police, wounding the third. Then he fled to Algeria...
...shorter stores (such as "My Manuscript," a tale narrated by a vicious teenage boy who screams at his housekeeper and has sex with men in the bathroom at JC Penny's in order to research his work-in-progress, and "the Last You'll Hear From Me," a suicide note written by a girl who tries to disparage her exboyfriend's sexual equipment from beyond the grave--"It's the size of my little finger...I'm not wanting the nail, just the finger!") made me think America should resuscitate the great tradition of reading pamphlets, so that every citizen...
When Leopold alternates his paranoic pacing back and forth with trips to the medicine cabinet, we are unsure whether he runs to the bathroom to get the drugs out of his system or vomit quantities of banal expressions. The dramatic risk is that, trampled under the recylced rhetoric of the world around him, Lithgow loses the innermost psychological tension of the play. Havel's subtle development (or un-development) of Leopold's character evades Lithgow, who remains confined by the circularity of the plays gestures and language...