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...hardware store. If this sounds exaggerated, consider Owen's passionate discussion of "The Joy of Joint Compound." He writes that "once, when I was resurfacing the ceiling of my daughter's bedroom, I stepped down from the stool on which I had been standing and into an open bucket of joint compound. The smooth white material felt cool and luxurious against my foot, which, as luck would have it, was bare." Mental-health professionals and spouses of Skilsaw fondlers will recognize that luck had nothing to do with...
Need a crystal ice bucket for the office? The price isn't bad: just $83. How about a handsome garment bag? Only $197.50, compared with $395 at a typical luggage shop. A Polaroid Spectra camera will run you $99.57. Buy one at a Washington camera store...
...think it was the "Generalissimo," but it could just as easily have been the "Czar" or "Grand Poobah"--taught my crew how to wax floors. To wax correctly, one must saturate one's mop with wax and then squeeze exactly 70 percent of the wax back into the bucket. There is no other correct method...
...worshiped here by the ancients transforms the acropolis to a glowing pink, visitors clamber beneath friezes of grapevines and laughing fauns. Zeinab, 26, a Shi'ite woman from Baalbek, trudges down the dusty road past the temple of Venus carrying a bag of bread and an empty bucket. She is eight months pregnant and wears a long, loose- fitting dress. "The tourists should wear what they want to. I like to see them," she says. "Since they started coming, it feels a lot freer...
...hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman into a clinic examining room pricked themselves with a syringe that is believed to have been used on an AIDS patient. The youngsters plucked the needle from the covered red bucket into which dirty syringes are tossed; the pail was on an open shelf under a sink...