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...further to go than that. The entire, Redbooky marriage-spicing industry is skewed to make couples feel better about their lame sex lives. Sure, it's hard to tell your spouse what you really want-especially because for many women it seems to be eight hours of bathtub back massage as foreplay-but honesty is better than getting to the point where you have to watch that Advanced Sexual Techniques tape. We'd all be a lot better off if my mom just told people that. Especially...
Just last week, it hardly seemed worth repeating the myriad reasons that sending back the bells made less sense than climbing into a sauna with Boris Yeltsin and a fifth of bathtub vodka. Aside from the cost and inconvenience involved, returning the artifacts would deprive Harvard of one of its most distinctive charms. And did the Eastern patriarchs expect Lowell’s corps of dedicated, if a bit eccentric, klappermeisters to just pick up and find a new weirdly cultish pseudo-extracurricular? With all due respect, fathers, if you want some bells, I hear there?...
...lack of clothes does not necessarily lead to greater truthfulness. Indeed, it can be argued that the tender, fully clothed encounter between Ben Kingsley and Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog tells us something profound about their relationship. The same way with the (also clothed) bathtub embrace between Albert Finney and Jessica Lange in Big Fish. On the other hand, the buck-naked romping of William H. Macy and Maria Bello in The Cooler is just as informative. Their bodies may be imperfect, but their pleasure is infectious...
...floor walk-up. The ceiling has collapsed, and pigeons are nesting in the exposed rafters. The bathtub is--where else?--in the living room. Ah, home sweet Hell's Kitchen home...
...years Arbus had been subject to depression so severe she sometimes had trouble leaving her apartment. When she finally took her life, by swallowing barbiturates and slashing her wrists, she died in her bathtub, fully clothed. When her body was discovered days later, it was partially decomposed. But who understood better than she that the fully human condition has its grotesque dimension? And who had worked harder to prepare a field of understandings in which even misery could be understood as a subdepartment of dignity? "I really believe," she once wrote, "there are things which nobody would see unless...