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After greeting a Democratic President in the bathroom mirror every one of 1,299 mornings and sleeping in the White House at least 700 nights, Carter has indeed brought the nation a new kind of leadership. It is at least one promise that he kept among the 600 that he made during his remarkable march to the Oval Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Assessing a Presidency | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

Some Iranians were kind and helpful with small favors, such as fetching books and clothes for the captives. Others liked to harass them; one tactic was to ignore their knocks on their doors to delay them from going to the bathroom or getting something they needed. The tougher captors, including a fellow called "Old Stoneface" by the hostages, "were on a real ego trip," says Queen. "This was the big moment of their lives." Queen was blindfolded whenever he left his room, and except for his roommates, he was not allowed to speak to other hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Glimpse into the Embassy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...latest film, he scratches his grizzly chin and narrows his tired eyes with the charm of a runty mutt who must scrounge to survive on a diet of crabgrass and crusty bread. Dawaere's puppylike affability extends to his awkwardly rolling gait, which takes him down highways, through bathroom windows and across manicured gardens on a quest for hilarious revenge...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Pastry | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

Geyser Dousers & Sign Reversers. Literary and artistic work is just a part of the swath of destruction left by carefree vacationers. They tear out bathroom fixtures and pull up flowering plants. They use blasting powder to collect specimens of Indian hieroglyphics. They feed chocolate-covered laxatives to bear cubs and dump detergent into geysers. Sometimes they block up geysers with rocks and logs. They reverse signs on trails-a form of humor that has led to at least one near fatality. In Gettysburg they love to push over monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Spoilers | 7/3/1980 | See Source »

...empty hallway into a furnished room and draw a warm bath comes Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, a brilliantly precise and demanding film that turns horror into art and art into horror. With obsessive simplicity, Kubrick manipulates the pieces of an ordinary world--a family, a kitchen, a bathroom, a television--to create an extraordinary image of terror and death...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Night in Shining Horror | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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