Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard student who practically subsidizes Baker Library with $200 library fines, but who has been hired by investment bankers at Morgan Stanley? Who tells dirty jokes, but makes her roommates say the punchlines? Who loves to take showers but has been known to stack 13 beer kegs in her bathtub? Photo sums it up: "I think I'm sorta normal...
...author devised a scheme highly appropriate to the life of his subject. The book opens in the spring of 1884 with a tired and white-bearded Whitman, who has just purchased a house in unlovely (Kaplan's word) Camden, N.J. This is the Whitman who splashes in the bathtub, sleeps late, and depends on a cane to move around. In the second chapter, Kaplan describes Whitman's last days. The rest of the biography takes Whitman's life in chronological order from his birth in chapter three, so our last picture of the poet frames the 65-year-old moving...
Model Housewife Pat Kramer has this itty-bitty problem. She is shrinking. Perhaps because of prolonged exposure to hundreds of household chemicals, Pat is growing smaller day by day-even as she continues to shop for the family groceries, scour bathtub rings and battle waxy buildup. "She's the kind of person who is going to make the best of it," explains Comedian Lily Tomlin, who plays Kramer in The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a film due for release in January. The sets, says Tomlin, include "a life-size kitchen, one for when I am 3-ft. tall, a huge...
...addition to personal data, the short form also asks a dozen questions mostly about the residence: the number of rooms, whether it is owned or rented and whether it has a private entrance and full plumbing (defined as "hot and cold piped water, a flush toilet and a bathtub or shower"). The long form, which will be received by 17% of the households, asks 46 additional questions, including education and income levels and whether the respondent is physically or mentally disabled. These questions seem to be not only intrusive but also idiosyncratic, and they and similar ones have irritated...
...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...