Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noisy way. Instead of shifting all the junk from one place to another, she advertised a garage sale, opened the doors to her Georgetown establishment and attracted a block-long line of some 2,500 eager souvenir hunters. Barbara offered such items as: a leopard-skin rug ($60), a bathtub full of used cosmetics (two for 5?), a 125-piece set of Wedgwood china ($800), an old telephone that "Henry Kissinger made several important calls on" ($15), some plastic table mats (25? each), some old birth-control pills (two for 5?) and a familiar object hung over the fireplace...
...Kenan incident is the most recent in a series of government crackdowns on critics from within. In 1970 a satire called Queen of the Bathtub was pressured to close after 20 performances because it dealt brutally with Israeli losses during the "war of attrition" with Egypt. "Toilet humor," growled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Three months ago an English-language lampoon called Lillit, published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption...
...decisive 16-3 win over the Green Bay Packers with a nice orderly tumult. "When the Skins win," says Jim Graham, manager of the Fredericksburg Holiday Inn, "that's when we have trouble with the fans. By the end of a game they have gone through a bathtub of beer, and they start throwing toilet paper and hollering...
From the first, Breuer showed an original spirit; he slept on top of a bathtub in an apartment he shared with two women. He quickly questioned the Bauhaus slogan of "Art and Technology-a new Unity." It implies, he said, that "art is wonderful, technology is wonderful, so the two together must be twice as wonderful. That is not so." As for the famous tag-"form follows function"-Breuer wryly added: "Not always." What he aimed at was "something simpler, more elemental, more generous and more human than a machine...
...still runs Meet the Press from a converted apartment in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, one flight up from the living quarters he shares with Charlotte, his wife of 48 years; Son Jonathan is a Wall Street Journal reporter. The cluttered working space houses file cases in the bathtub, tapes of more than 1,200 MTP broadcasts, an avalanche of news clippings and a staff of six who labor under the pressures of weekly deadlines and Spivak's indefatigable dedication to the program. "He wakes up with his motors racing," says Spivak's key aide, Associate Producer...