Word: bathtubs
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...economic world, a dry world of charts and graphs and statistical reports that Alan Greenspan reads in the bathtub, good news and bad news have always been in the ear of the beholder. Traditionally, bad economic news for Main Street is celebrated by Wall Street - it means the Fed is more likely to cut rates - while a favorable economic report can be cause for investor alarm, portending monetary tightening down the road...
...hanging forest of drying clothes, basically whatever they’re not wearing at the time, which they wash in plastic tubs in their bathroom. Nowhere in sight are a TV or phone, and hot water probably isn’t an issue, as they also lack a working bathtub. When it’s shower time, they pack their towels and deodorant into tote bags and head out to the public bathhouse for three yuan a visit. Alice’s reward for standing in front of a classroom about nine hours each week and sitting probably twice...
...lost count—probably after the $46 shot of tequila. I didn’t feel too well the next day. Uch, a sportswriter, had taken me back to his place to sleep, dropping me off shortly before 11:30 a.m. at my apartment. I soaked in the bathtub for awhile and lay motionless on my bed, feeling so sick I didn’t even think to call the paper and tell them I was okay. When my editor called a short time later—after calling the hospital looking for me and after threatening my friend...
Around 9 a.m. Wednesday, Russell, also 36, left the family's tidy house in Clear Lake, a Houston suburb, for his job as a NASA computer engineer. Less than an hour later, Andrea drowned 2-year-old Luke in the bathtub, according to a police investigator familiar with her taped confession who spoke anonymously to local newspapers. By the investigator's account, Andrea then put the boy's body on a bed, under a sheet, and repeated the process with Paul, 3, and John, 5. While she was drowning six-month-old Mary, Noah, 7, walked in. When he tried...
...Porcine Panic," by Andy Merrill and Jason Little seem to have spied on my bathroom with the realistic portrayal of an Aquaman doll's bathtub struggle with a piggy handpuppet. Tony Millionaire and Chip Kidd turn in a masterfully sardonic "The Bat-Man." Colored an antique tea-stain brown, with a mood reminiscent of the 1930s horror movies, Bruce Wayne becomes a creepy, eccentric playboy who flies around in his "bat-gyro." Another stand-out, Ellen Fornay and Ariel Bordeaux imagine "Wonder Woman's Day Off," when she skips out for a cappuccino and a poetry slam, with...