Word: shower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when characters do philander-notably on Soap-a price is exacted, either in the form of acute mental anguish or Old Testament-style retribution. The conflict between current manners and old-fashioned values is powerfully frustrating; every time a show heats viewers up, it douses them with a cold shower...
...they had filled the whole year with Christmas and found they had no more days to expand to--began to drink a lot, too. They sat, dry of new ideas, among mounds of cuisinards, trash mashers, yogurt-makers, decorator cologne sets, soap-on-a-rope, leisure suits, pulsating shower heads, vibrabeds, three-dimensional chess sets, digital watches, coffee-table pictorial history books, pet rocks, ant farms, pastel toothpicks, statuettes inscribed "world's greatest mom" and world's greatest dad," incense holders, lava lamps, shampoos smelling like exotic fruit, toy rifles with plastic arsenals big enough to defeat plastic armies, desk...
Most N.F.L. midgets agree that next to putting up with jokes about their size (a 6-ft. 5-in. teammate ordered Atlanta's Lawrence out of the shower "because grown people don't shower with Munchkins"), the biggest hurdle is getting an opportunity to display their skills. Football's bias toward big men usually means lower spots in the draft for small players and fewer invitations to training camp as free agents, and more modest starting salaries. The important thing, says the Colts' Stevens, "is to get the chance to show what...
...draw the blood away from the head, I take a cold shower or sit in a tub of cold water, taking care that the cold water does not touch my head or neck...
Black political prisoners often die in South African prisons; at least 21 have done so during the past 18 months. Official inquests usually attribute their deaths to suicide or implausible accidents such as slipping in a prison shower. Biko's death looked particularly suspicious: the government at first blamed it on the effects of a six-day hunger strike, but the 200-lb., 6 ft. 2 in. Biko had seemed too healthy to have succumbed to malnutrition so quickly. After an autopsy showed that Biko had suffered serious head injuries, the scheduled proceedings into his case attracted wide attention...