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...views the housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance at the many cons directed at her harried legions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wits and Funny Persons | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Your Americana mini-article that spoke of the orbiting astronauts' seeing a crystal beauty in their body wastes in space [Jan. 16] disturbed my idea of the breathtakingly unpolluted realm of the cosmos. One man's heaven is another man's septic tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island--On a field that looked disconcertingly similar to the ground above an overflowing septic tank, the Crimson Soccer J.V.s played valiantly before falling to Brown by a 2-0 score here yesterday...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Muddy Field and Skilled Bruin Booters Combine to Bring Down J.V.s' 2-0 | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

...Wallace (2) 2-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (1) 3-The Dragons of Eden, Sagon (3) 4-Roots, Haley (4) 5-It Didn 't Start with Watergate, Lasky (5) 6-Looking Out for #1, Ringer (7) 7-Passages, Sheehy (6) 8-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (8) 9-The Camera Never Blinks, Rather 10-Haywire, Hayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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