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...papers ("A film of unusual ineptitude," raved the New York Times) and CP's ready to bet the farm that The Mod Squad, stripped of its afros, funky title sequence, and the heroin chic of Peggy Lipton, has flushed it's soul down the '90s post-mod crapper. Find the old pilot. Watch. Repeat. And as always, rewind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Learned To Love the Potato | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...closet and "gang-splash" him, like they did Mona. So Smitty submits. But not for long, as Queenie convinces him that he could become a "politician" and a "hippo," too. The next time Rocky calls him to the shower, Smitty acquaints his patron with the floor of the crapper--and now he's the "old man" in the block...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Barbarity Behind Bars | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...Smitty become his "old man," declaring with the Shakespeare sonnet that he cares too much for Smitty to play by the groundrules of sexual domination, he displays a lot more guts than Rocky and Queenie. These two immediately submit to Smitty once he slaps them around the crapper a few times...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Barbarity Behind Bars | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...basic functions, the contemporary American bathroom is "hopelessly antiquated and inadequate," in the view of Alexander Kira, an architect and Cornell professor who has immersed himself in the subject for 17 years. Indeed, he points out, the Western loo has changed little since the late 19th century, when Thomas Crapper of London patented his flush toilet-and thereby insinuated himself into colloquial English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bathrooms for Living | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...world sniffs at the new in a graceful London square, marred by the tidy vulgarity of a building bearing the legend: Thomas Crapper, Sanitary Engineer by Appointment to His Majesty King George V. Nearby lives a pale, spoiled young aristocrat, Tony (James Fox), who hires a "gentleman's gentleman" named Barrett. Clearly relishing the most substantial role of his career, Dirk Bogarde, perfect as Barrett, assumes a tea-party facade through which the gleam of hellfire is always dimly perceptible. He sabotages the young man's proper fiancee (Wendy Craig) with innuendo, attempting to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Gentleman's Downfall | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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