Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played a game with the secretaries called "The Rape of the Sabine Women," and later became an associate editor of the more staid New Republic. By day, he reviewed the best of his contemporaries. After hours, he saw them not quite at their best: E.E. Cummings lying in a bathtub maliciously imitating John Dos Passes' speech impediment; Dorothy Parker surrounded by "the vulgarity of her too much perfume." Even Wilson's Princeton friend Scott Fitzgerald was a "sloppy boor" who got drunk and knocked people unconscious in the lavatory...
...Charles Lindbergh, the significance of D.H. Lawrence's small head, lists of slang, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, what it felt like to take a fast taxi ride through Manhattan while drunk, other people's family histories, the woman who kept a pet alligator in her bathtub and hypnotized it until it was limp -all are coolly, sometimes gravely considered...
...also be said, however, that her appearance takes up about two minutes of what is otherwise a woeful enterprise. The nominal stars of the show, besides the zealously mediocre Sarrazin, are Jennifer O'Neill, who always looks freshly daubed, Margot Kidder, who drinks heavily and masturbates in the bathtub, and Cornelia Sharpe, struggling to speak words over a single syllable. Ives is perhaps a half-century older than these women, but they do not have a thing...
...Enderby, was a fairly unprepossessing fellow. But due to a surfeit of British cooking and intractable intestines, he frequently emitted noxious sounds from both ends. He lived, moreover, in animal squalor, reclusively scribbling in the bathroom and tossing sections of his poem The Pet Beast into his otherwise unused bathtub...
...dimensions. Though parties and interhouse sporting events are still popular, there is a growing interest in community projects. Last fall Miami's Alpha Epsilon Phi and its sister sorority, Delta Zeta, held a "showerthon"-during which students took showers for 360 straight hours in an especially rigged bathtub on the street-and raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society. At the University of Kansas, the Interfraternity Council has assumed sponsorship of the semiannual campus blood drive...