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Although the general public knows little about the art of bathroom painting, connoisseurs know that the best men in the field like to start early. The real artists are careful about the materials they use, too. With a cunning rarely equalled in recent Harvard history, a special variety of low-grade fish oil was included in the paint mixtures...
...holds his breath and stands perfectly still on a bathroom scale, the needle wobbles slightly but visibly in time with his heartbeat. In theory, it should be easy to use this principle to get medically valuable information about the strength of the heart's thrust and about its subtle subbeats, thus disclosing how healthy the heart is. Inventive minds have been trying for more than half a century to devise an instrument that would yield reliable data. In New York City last week, Astro-Space Laboratories, Inc. demonstrated the latest ballistocardiograph,* which was developed with the aid of missilemen...
...ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The logic of self-realization, as Huxley saw it, divided men into two camps-the Good-Timers, who dwell in the City of Dreadful Joy, and the High-Lifers, who "go a-whoring after abstractions...
...five servants who, in shifts, work 24 hours a day, sometimes dusting a framed share of Esquire common stock on his bathroom wall, over a sign that says: "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass." As a precaution, he will set up a nationwide modeling school and agency, which will serve as a vast bunny farm. Having put a wife and two children behind him (he was divorced two years ago), Hefner claims that he would make himself "take a sanity test" if he should contemplate marriage again. Instead, he loves his work. "My doctor says I do it 'with...
...glorious fling in Bilbao. When the money ran out, Jimmy supported himself by playing the piano in a local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona Blanca de Aragón, outdoes him by keeping 53 dogs and 26 cats in the family palace...