Word: bathtubfuls
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...long novel The Carpetbaggers ran into the millions of sales. Robbins writes with a spade, and of course he heaped Carpetbaggers with sex; a choice passage follows a call girl as she shaves a particularly hairy client with a straight razor and jasmine soap, dumps him into a jumbo bathtub, pours champagne over him as if he were a quart of fresh strawberries, then jumps in to help him splash...
...scenes before Seller's reappearance are riotous, however. It is impossible not to laugh at the grotesque sight of an intoxicated Mason lying triumphant in a dirty bathtub, balancing his drink on his chest, following the death of his wife. A couple of neighbors come in to commiserate, and suddenly Humbert has to act sorry himself amidst his drunken stupor. Then the apologetic father of the cab driver who killed Mrs. Haze enters and offers to pay for the funeral expenses. Humbert, now quite confused, agrees, much to his benefactor's dismay...
...club, according to Dr. Samuel Johnson's famed dictionary, is "an assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions." The conditions have changed considerably during the last generation or so, and the good fellows of another era would choke on their bathtub gin to see some of the things that are going on today in those citadels of the social order known as gentlemen's clubs...
...Gable, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power, Peter Lawford, Marlene Dietrich, Dick Powell, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, and Maria Montez (a prize exhibit because she was warned in 1951 that the first week of September, an adverse time in her chart, would bring her danger from water, and drowned in her bathtub on Sept. 7). Righter's rival is veteran Stargazer Blanca Holmes, who boasts her own long list of big names, including the late Marilyn Monroe, Paula and Susan Strasberg and Clifford Odets...
...known to look the other way during an escape, the Saxons shoot to kill without a second thought. Even so, an average of ten East Germans a day leap, crawl, dig or swim their way to freedom. One couple even floated its infant across the Havel River in a bathtub. Since the Wall went up a year ago, 12.000 refugees have made it safely out of the Soviet zone; 49 who tried to reach West Berlin have died...