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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings in at the movie's end, in his only onstage appearance...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Tom Waits: Making it Big | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

FRESHMAN year you woke up one morning after what you knew had been a particularly exciting, sweaty keg-in-the bathtub party only to realize that you had trouble remembering what exactly had happened the night before...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Youth Is Wasted On The Young | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Most never act on the dark impulses, but a few new mothers -- less than 1% -- become psychotic. These may suffer extreme agitation, feel persecuted and begin hallucinating. Angela Thompson of Sacramento drowned her nine-month-old son in the bathtub after hearing the voice of God tell her the child was the devil. It has been five years since her son's death, but her recollection of her mental state is still vivid. "I thought if I killed the baby that my husband would raise him to life again in three days and that the world would know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Why Mothers Kill Their Babies | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...gallery. It is called A Million Miles Away and is made from some 28,000 magazines -- surplus copies of House Beautiful, Esquire, Town & Country and the like -- spilling in a torrent from a fireplace, across the floor and through a wall and another fireplace. Embedded in them are a bathtub, a stuffed zebra and what must be the world's largest outboard motor, a 300-h.p. Johnson V-8, which looks big enough to drive the Queen Mary. The work is not for sale, and will be dismantled at the end of the show; Mach likens such setups to performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August 1948. "I'd give $100 for a cold beer," Dugan whispered to Hoyt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Heady Mix: Booze and Baseball | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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