Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There remained only one question, to which the answer contained some consolation: what good would it do them to kill him off without at least profiting by the publicity? ... no machine pistols ... just an accident in the bathtub-what would they get out of that? What good would it do them...
WALLY IS UNQUESTIONABLY the inferior of the pair when it comes to appearances. Short and stout, with balding, frizzy hair that reveals a large melon of a forehead, he sits in marked contrast to Andre--tall, angular, and handsome. Like a baby squeezing a bathtub toy, Andre can play on Wally, eliciting a sputtering high-pitched squeal...
...intends to sign up for singing lessons when he returns to Los Angeles. "I honestly believe I would have been much happier, although much less rich, if I had taken up singing as a career," says the budding Savoyard. "As my wife knows, I love to sing in the bathtub." -By E. Graydon Carter...
...dead are reduced unceremoniously to convenient size; his wife's childhood home, once a center of culture and comfort, is only a notch above a slum tenement: "Radiators turned cold after breakfast. The faucets went dry at 8 a.m. and did not run again until evening. The bathtub had no stopper. You flushed the toilet with buckets of water...
Frequent surveys in the past have measured material gains and quality of life; only two weeks ago, in fact, the latest such British study indicated that fully 96% of Britons can now scrub in either a bathtub or a shower, and 55% have central heating (that supposed bane of British life). But never before have the abstract social and moral values of Europeans been measured as they were by the E.V.S.S.G...