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...that doesn't grab ya, check out Thirty's Company, a yuk-filled peek at Boris and Anna Porkachoff and their three children as they fight four grandparents, three aunts, and 18 cousins for bathroom privileges each morning in their one-room apartment...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: TV Guideski | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...docked in one of the aptly named Singles. My room had previously been occupied by someone with infectious hepatitis. Great, I thought. Strictly speaking, I had no roommates; but the eight gents on my floor who formed a bathroom unit, became one meta-rooming group. I never ventured fully into this circle of hell, living as I was in a sensory deprivation tank of a room...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...where managers have felt compelled to remove AIDS sufferers from jobs because other employees have demanded it. When Paul Cronan, a twelve-year veteran phone installer for New England Telephone, revealed his illness in May 1985, co-workers refused to use the truck he had driven, demanded that the bathroom he used be disinfected and threatened to kill Cronan if he returned to work. The company put Cronan on disability leave. Todd Shuttleworth, a former budget analyst for Broward County, Fla., came down with AIDS in 1984. The county dismissed him and canceled his medical benefits immediately after Shuttleworth revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living with AIDS on the Job | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...itself, his humanity struggles to understand and fight the metamorphosis. What remains of Seth the scientist is all too aware of the monster he is turning into: an efficient killer with "no compassion, no compromise." At times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in the Animal Kingdom the Fly | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Tourist Burma, your official hosts for seven days, try to discourage this activity by requiring you to fill out a bewildering number of currency forms, and have them stamped every time you change money, take a trip, stay in a hotel, or go to the bathroom. If your form says you only have 100 kyats but you come to the hotel with 500, they know you've been playing dirty, slap your wrists and send you back to "Go," do not collect...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Harvard Traveler's Seven Burmese Days | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

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