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...antic science. A percolator and an electric corn popper hooked up to a clock radio allow him to wake up to brewed coffee and popped corn. Bed making is eliminated by stitching a sleeping bag from a sheet. To save time and kilowatts, the laundry is thrown into the bathtub and stomped clean under the shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent with an Explanation the Accidental Tourist | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...barred windows of the home they shared on Don Carlos Drive. "I could hear her hollering," said Neighbor Tyrone Tyler. "She had to be on fire." But no one could get into the house in time to save Street or her housemate. Near by, Marie Gladden, 62, filled a bathtub and jumped in to avoid the flames, but her body was found in the rubble of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fiery Tale of Two Cities | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

There are other craft on the canal as well. A transportation department tug, painted a bright blue and yellow and looking more like a child's bathtub toy than a working boat, passes the Peckinpaugh toward midmorning, heading east for Utica. Otherwise, the only other boats are recreational, mostly Canadian boats using the canal to get to the Hudson and the Atlantic Ocean. A large trimaran, the Tournamente of Toronto, its mast removed and lashed to the deck, chugs by under power, its crew bundled against the autumn chill and waving as much to keep warm as to greet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Lone Voyager | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic, Halpern's performance is haunting. Christopher Moore is the "lucky paranoiac" who gets to play Marat. Suffering from a skin disease, the feeble and pinched looking Marat crouches in a bathtub. His fervent speeches sound simultaneously noble and pathetic as he bleats them in a madman's wavering voice. Although sympathetic and believable, Moore lacks the personal force of a rabid activist. On the other hand, Nick Lawrence displays great haughtiness as the infamous Marquis, swaggering about and scorning the other...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

...department, posing as a killer for hire, arranged a meeting with the suspect. The upshot, say investigators: a $3,000 contract to kill Susan Penney, 35. Half was paid up front; the balance was due after the deed, which was supposed to look like an accidental fall in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Where's the Body? | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

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