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...kill would-be escapees on sight, some have apparently looked the other way or deliberately avoided hitting their compatriots. The East Germans have now equipped sections of the barrier with automatic self-firing weapons, mounted on three levels so that anyone seeking to jump the fence will trigger a shower of bullets...
Dispassionately, it presents good trends and bad trends. Many material benefits are improving. Nearly 80% of British households are now equipped with either a fixed bath or shower (65% more than in Germany, the next best-scrubbed European country) and 34% even have central heating (which may surprise visitors who have shivered through British winters...
...their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken (George Lithgow) all muddy and bloody. In Act III, after a late-minute victory, they are roaring, towel-flipping conventioneers with a communal shower for champagne...
...intent was to satirize, and the target was anything that had become overgrown with acceptance or nostalgia. In 1967, he freshened his slant with Snow White, a novel whose transformed fairy-tale heroine swept away the Disney dust by writing dirty poems and commingling in the shower with the Seven Dwarfs, who otherwise labored over large vats, manufacturing Chinese baby food...
...spending a good thirty seconds Sunday night draped over John Gosling's piano, sipping seductively from a can of Bud. He has a finely honed sense of showmanship of show bix. So he sends a men with a fields out during intermission, dresses him in white tie, tails and shower clogs, and lets him sing all the roles in what may be a mini-opera, while accompanying himself on the fiddle. After that John Gosling felt flat on his face during the band's entrance...