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Closing the Critical Gap. The showpiece of the sound-conditioned home is the bathroom. Not only is its door
...your communications cover story [May 14]: the reason I killed myself in January 1970 is because I no longer had privacy in my bathroom, man's last haven for quiet contemplation and omphaloskepsis. When it became mandatory to wear radio receiving sets so that people who had no idea where I was could call me, I could always unbolt the thing from my left ear. But when, in 1968, Congress passed the Numbskull Act requiring all male adults to have these receivers surgically implanted, brother, that did it! Big Brother, that...
...system that had finally become established in Russia was a particularly vicious form of fascism." Through one of the youthful patients, Tarsis bitterly asks: "What is Communism?" His answer: "The apotheosis of drabness, the negation of personality, life on semolina gruel in a one-room flat with a bathroom-lavatory and a combination divan-bed-cupboard-desk-bookcase...
...Bebawis turned out to be divorced, though living together, but the prosecution established little else. It failed to produce the gun; it did not shake either Claire's story that she was in the office bathroom while Youssef killed her lover, or Youssef's story that she did it while he was out walking. The whole affair cost thousands-all of it totally wasted. The court has just declared a mistrial for the completely unexpected reason that three of the six jurors were found to be ineligible...
...battle progresses, the ship suffers her first fatality. At a dimly lit spot on the far rail of the ship, the muffled voice of a chaplain is heard, a bass drum rolls, and a splash sounds over the starboard side. Later on, men are heard practicing their bathroom baritones ("Yo-ho, Pagliacci, I got a waterproof watchee") when a torpedo strikes. There is a rending of metal, an explosion, and finally the sucking sound of water rushing through a hole. The singing stops. All four men died in the shower room...