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...Allegiance. The familiar words echo in immaculate suburban buildings with bright, airy classrooms and labs where children study art and languages, learn on the latest computers and play sports in well- equipped gyms. They also ring out in overcrowded, eroding, inner-city schools where sewage backs up into bathroom plumbing and where students share used textbooks and practice typing on handmade, fake keyboards. Whatever the setting, the pledge ends the same: "with liberty and justice...
...naked. I also remember her standing in front of me rubbing her breasts. At other times, she would fret over whether my bowels were all right. A regular ritual was a cleansing enema of sudsy water made with laundry detergent. I still recall the feel of the tile bathroom floor as I lay there on my left side while she administered the preparation. "Breathe deeply," she said while we waited for her brew to work...
EVEN THOUGH wallowing in feces for eight hours a day is not my idea of fun, working in Adams House had its moments. Manny and Tyrone were great bosses, not petty and immature like Josh and Josh. And some of the Adams House bathrooms were truly works of art. One particularly memorable john had "I Love You" scrawled in the toilet bowl with a substance not of this world. Maybe I should also get Lit and Arts C credit for trying to clean that bathroom. I can only hope that non-ordered choice does not ruin the character of Adams...
...Food Products plant in Hamlet, N.C., had much love for the place. The job -- cooking, weighing and packing fried chicken parts for fast-food restaurants -- was hot, greasy and poorly paid. The conveyor belts moved briskly, and the few rest breaks were so strictly timed that going to the bathroom at the wrong moment could lead to dismissal. But in the sleepy town of 6,200 there was not much else in the way of work. So most of the plant's 200 employees, predominantly black and female, were thankful just to have the minimum-wage job. Until last week...
...movie never satisfactorily explains how all these natural enemies avoid bumping into one another outside the bathroom door. But then they are, even the homegrown Nazi, very circumspect people. Their tendency is to mutter their ideological passions, not shout them. For they are, most basically, village folk, more interested in restoring the sustaining continuities of their lives than they are in maintaining their high wartime dudgeons...