Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Woolf was a bit put off by the prospect of bedtime congress, Leo Tolstoy was positively appalled. "Man can endure earthquake, epidemic, dreadful disease, every form of spiritual torment," he said. "But the most dreadful tragedy that can befall him is and will remain the tragedy of the bedroom." Tolstoy went so far as to write a book advocating celibacy, The Kreutzer Sonata, but his wife had what she angrily called "the real postscript." Not long after publication, she became pregnant...
...another happy satyr; women referred to him, with awe, as a "force of nature." Dumas also had a happy disposition, and since he could not be faithful himself, he did not ask fidelity from others. He once caught a friend in his wife's bedroom, and, instead of starting the usual tiresome scene, invited him to spend the night. The next morning he shook the man's hand. "Shall two old friends quarrel about a woman," he asked, "even when she's a lawful wife?" Like a good father, he gave his discarded loves...
...still more expensive than what I'm used to, but it's no more expensive than cities like San Francisco and New York." Even students are scrimping less. Susan Shafer, 19, of Michigan State University, who is on a ten-week foreign study program, shares a two-bedroom flat in the Latin Quarter for $16 a day, a price that includes two meals...
...buyers, land leasing can reduce the down payment on a house and thus make a purchase possible. In the Woodward Co.'s new Park Lane development in Carlsbad, Calif., for example, a two-bedroom house costs $127,990 when sold conventionally. But with land leasing, the house sells for just $82,990, and the down payment falls from 20% to 10%. The catch: the buyer must agree to pay a monthly ground rental of $450. The total monthly house payments would then be about $1,444 for a land lease, compared with $1,294 for a conventional sale...
...Lulu or put off by the gloomy Brechtian neon of Seven Deadly Sins earlier this year will be happy to hear that Figaro is staged straight, with period costumes by Rita Ryack. But the traditional mise-en-scene does not petrify the show. Edmunds has placed the Countess's bedroom, the courtroom, and the other havens of aristocracy underneath a patently fake proscenium, upstage; in the wings, stretching around the audience are the kitchens, dressing rooms and lofts of the servants; and most of the action, appropriately enough, occurs in the middle ground. Figaro's wedding procession winds through...