Word: bathtubs
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...years Arbus had been subject to depression so severe she sometimes had trouble leaving her apartment. When she finally took her life, by swallowing barbiturates and slashing her wrists, she died in her bathtub, fully clothed. When her body was discovered days later, it was partially decomposed. But who understood better than she that the fully human condition has its grotesque dimension? And who had worked harder to prepare a field of understandings in which even misery could be understood as a subdepartment of dignity? "I really believe," she once wrote, "there are things which nobody would see unless...
...agents torture and kill student activist Park Chong Chol. An autopsy reveals his windpipe was smashed on the edge of a bathtub...
...sleeps with the swan that he fashioned out of bread in his cell. During the day, she and her friends make up "torture games" to play in the street. But within days, her uncle is taken back to prison and executed. The family friend is found drowned in his bathtub. Satrapi's non-religious French school is shut down and she is sent to an all-girls school. All the while, people cope by living in the small cracks in the system. It is in these cracks that Persepolis shines. When Satrapi and her friends are handed veils to wear...
...whimsical and idiosyncratic artistic accoutrements of Dudley House. Residents of the co-op have gradually added decorations since Harvard first bought the building in 1958. The accumulation over the years ranges from Ouija boards and drums made from soup cans to Jimi Hendrix posters and an orange bathtub full of koi fish. And that’s just in the living room...
...when the first of the hijacked planes struck, until 10:28 a.m., when the second tower fell. Still to be decided is the design for a memorial to the Trade Center victims, which will be chosen this year after an open competition and may be erected within the bathtub. Meanwhile, Libeskind has embedded the idea of recollection all through his design, moving vertically from grief to renewal...