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Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...
...Americans, of course, who are accused of being obsessed with cleanliness and of trying to convert the world to the glory of the bathroom. But the Romans were far greater bathers. The author observes that the Baths of Caracalla covered an area six times greater than that...
...Advertising Agency. Before giving the idea the up thumb last autumn, Grey executives sent out for a 30-gallon aquarium, ordered one of the copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could not see the need for shaving under water. No one heard him. They had all left for Florida...
...process, Writer-Director Bergman displays a wide range of comedic accomplishments. He is a master of bedroom farce-not to mention bathroom humor, most of which is not translated in the subtitles. In a flashback to the couple's courtship, he pulls a hilariously rowdy switch on the old Tristan-Isolde routine, and follows it with an uproarious crescendo of crockery-busting buffoonery. Moreover, Bergman flashes a redoubtable power of cynical epigram ("Only impotent men are faithful, and they have unfaithful wives"). And almost every character and scene is shaped by the cutting edge of his irony...
...omits the crucial words "Other help kept," or "Own room, own bathroom, own TV, top wages, good outings," stands a chance. Today, says the head of one employment agency, "nannies are the most sought-after women in England"-and after centuries of service, they apparently know...