Word: rubdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew assembled, scrub brushes in hand. Its mission: to clean a year's worth of grime off the distinctive features of the 16th U.S. President. Once a year the 19-ft.-high statue of Abraham Lincoln at the heart of the Grecian-style memorial in Washington gets a thorough rubdown with special soap and natural- bristle brushes. Though Mr. Lincoln's baths are infrequent, their cost and duration are impressive. The twelve-hour cleaning set taxpayers back some...
...always, Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither. It brandishes the New York look, where every man needs a shave, and every woman a Porcelana rubdown. The Satan's Alley production numbers, full of grinding pelvises, heavy metaphors and a climactic ascending platform, have all the pretensions of Cats or a Bob Fosse musical but with none of the spirited style; this show would never get to previews. Stallone seems not to have noticed or cared. He heads off in opposite directions-toward 42nd Street and Flashdance Avenue-and loses himself...
...Arabic?as if I were an Arab representative. Most of Israel yearned for both peace and the physical security of territory, and it could not decide between its longing and its fears. This schizophrenia was well exemplified by the masseur in the King David Hotel who gave me a rubdown with a violence that belied his good will. All of Israel was counting on me, he allowed, pounding me. How many kilometers on the Golan was it safe to give up? I inquired, if only to gain a temporary surcease. "Give up? Kilometers? On the Golan? You must be crazy...
...some lighter moments. Only days before he died, Kevin Lynch asked his family to bring him some cigars. He lay there, his body emaciated, his voice a whisper, blowing smoke toward the ceiling. The mother and girlfriend of Kieran Doherty, 25, were lifting his shrunken body for a rubdown when he almost slid from the bed; the prisoner kidded them about taking 24 hours off his life...