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...steady drip of water in their dining hall yesterday, caused by a leak traced to the pipes below a second-floor room. But the resident of the room, Douglas Mason, a Kirkland tutor, said plumbers had not yet determined whether the water was coming from a leak in shower caulking, a decrepit pipe, or a clogged drainage system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burst Pipes Affect Lowell, Kirkland, Freshman Union | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

...Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending a rain shower to put out the fire...

Author: By Ted Osius, | Title: Sardis Reveals Its Riches | 1/5/1984 | See Source »

...tries to keep it close to the belt, but it's kind of obvious there is not a heck of a lot of love between Carm and the administrators," he says. Little things- like the team's shower room lacking soap early in the season have magnified and gained political overtones...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Learning to lose | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...nightclub with an impromptu striptease. He attracts more than the routine attention of the state security police (HOGPo) as well as of most of the women he encounters, from the nymphomaniac wife of a British diplomat to a "magical realist" Slakan novelist who seduces him in a shower, quoting Marx and Freud all the while. "Do you think it is possible to make a dialectical synthesis?" the novelist says. "If we do it well, it might not produce a false consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Currency | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...safety officer at the laboratory who requested anonymity said that Costello would have been much more seriously hurt if it had not been for the swift actions of two people who rushed her to an emergency shower and called an ambulance. Costello's rescuers, Richard P. Nathorst, a polymer science research associate, and Edward Otocka an adjunct professor of polymer science were treated for smoke inhalation...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Lab Explosion | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

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