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...other day of the week for the past 18 years, he will sit in front of an 8-ft.-high stack of broadcasting gear from 6 a.m., when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand, he tells his listeners so: "And now I am closing. I have to go to the doctor. The kidneys or something, I forget." Then WVCA...
Everything works fine until Anna bumps into a painter named Leo Cutter at a local Laundromat and, she confides, "my world ripped apart." What started out as a tale of female independence veers into romance. Leo awakens Anna to feelings she has never known before: "I became with him, finally, a passionate person." Besotted with her new lover, Anna does not notice that her daughter is being exposed to some unfamiliar experiences. When Leo stays ! over, casual nudity becomes the order of the night. On one occasion, the child comes to their bed while they are making love. On another...
...Chinese laundry--more precisely, an American-style laundry-dry cleaning shop--will soon open in the People's Republic. Fred P.C. Chao, 66, a Chinese-born owner of Korakleen, a small San Francisco-based cleaning chain, says that his company will establish a combination Laundromat and dry cleaner this September in Tianjin, China. A coastal city located about 80 miles east of Peking, Tianjin was Chao's hometown. If his first store proves successful, ^ he hopes to open between ten and 100 more throughout the world's most populous country. Easy on the starch, please...
...sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could...
...town? Was it a town? There are streets and street signs and houses, but no people. There are trailers at the Easy Living Mobile Manor, and the Easy Living Laundromat has a sign out front that says, THANKS FOR COMING, but there are no people. Windows are unbroken, and a few have curtains, neatly sashed back. There are some cars, a bird feeder made from a plastic Seven-Up bottle, a hammock tied from an elm to a sycamore, a riding mower with a Six Flags sticker on it, and FOR SALE signs all over the place. Pinned...