Word: bathtubfuls
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...carry buckets here and go home and carry more." Lining up for water at a Des Moines parking lot, Donna Bailey was upbeat in describing her family's coping strategy: "Every surface is covered with bowls of water. And we flush the toilets with rainwater we keep in the bathtub." Doug Riggs, on vacation from his job as a social worker in Marshalltown, drove 75 miles into Des Moines to help out and found himself managing a shelter at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. But at week's end only 25 flooded-out people had arrived; many more...
When the two big laughs come from a bathtub-size salad bowl and a food fight, you can guess that the playwright is flailing. Tina Howe (The Art of Dining, Coastal Disturbances) probably meant ONE SHOE OFF, which opened off-Broadway last week, as a poetic comment on the corrosive effects of professional failure on personal life, combined with a feminist fantasy of zipless fulfillment. Instead of an absurdist Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? her tale of two unhappy couples at a fiasco of a dinner party resembles sketch comedy -- wacky whimsies stitched together, abasing an able cast...
Hurley also wrote that garbage frequently came up her drain into the bathtub, and this plumbing problem was never fixed...
...Japan, which may be a model of our future, cars and buses have voices, doors and elevators speak. The answering machine talks to us, and for us, somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos...
...otherwise disparate scenes. The Monty Pythonesque floweryrobed, curler-toting, cake-gobbling housewife is clearly related in tone to the manic judge, wig askew, smashing his vast gavel against his alpine podium. The same hand is evident in the Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee act of Supervacuo and Ambitioso, the bathtub suicide of Lutecia and the conversational blowjob Vindice gives Rapacioso...