Word: baths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faster than you could say, "My mother-in-law is so annoying that..," he'd launched into an evocative Totie Fields imitation, and the dining room crowd--all of whom had long since stopped eating--either sat spellbound or rolled in terminal hysterics on the floor. In the schvitz-bath the next morning, I asked him what that was all about. (I was laughing too hard the night before to ask him then...
...those who find slicing and dicing both sensual and exciting, my kitchen is available. For myself, I'll go relax in the bath while the baby is crying and the dog is barking and get ready for a romantic candlelight dinner...
...products and favors is called tsou-hou-men, or going through the back door. It is prevalent in every part of the country, from the poorest rural communes to the most luxurious compounds reserved for the elite. In the countryside, for example, peasants are allowed only two bars of bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative in the commune supply department. Butchers have devised a simple means to bypass rationing to benefit...
...with Chanel No. 19 and set it to play with Star Wars toys. Those items sold briskly this Christmas, as did women's underpants labeled "Bloomie's" (for Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store) and hundreds of other expensive baubles for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and body. When the buying spree ended on Christmas Eve, U.S. retailers, as exhausted as their customers, could look back on their most successful Christmas ever...
...squalor and degradation match Calcutta's. Vast numbers of displaced fellahin spend their lives in one room, sleeping on the floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered with flies, and they suffer from chronic dysentery, as well as lung diseases aggravated by dust and sand filtering into their homes. Despite free compulsory education, only about 25% of the population can read and write...