Word: shower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rain thrummed on the huge tent twice during the performance, but the audience at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado hardly seemed to notice. Onstage, the pianist leaned more intently over the keyboard and subtly adjusted his tone to bring the music out over the sound of the shower. Wet or dry, it was an excellent performance of Beethoven's last and perhaps greatest piano sonata (in C minor, Opus 111), a piece that alternates between demonic fury and lyric contemplation and requires more than mere competence to bring...
...Time to cut the watermelon," Weil said. So he marched to the room in G entry which was used as a ladies room--probably the only lavatory in the state with a fireplace--and lugged the melons stored in the shower...
...squint after flyballs among the maze of overhead girders. The Scoreboard's video screen, all 1,800 electronic sq. ft. of it, is a study in psychological warfare. When an opposing pitcher is lifted, the screen shows a sad little character immersed by the rising water in the shower stall. During rows with the umps, the sign razzes: OH MY, NO! "I'm waiting for a big box filled with cherry bombs, firecrackers-the works," snarls Chicago Cubs Manager Leo Durocher. "It's the answer to all that stuff they pull in the Astrodome. Houston is bush...
...stickers are turning up in all sizes and colors: WATCHING TV MAKES YOU STERILE, APPLE PIE IS FLUORIDATED, GOD IS ALIVE AND HIDING IN ARGENTINA, CONSERVE WATER-SHOWER WITH A FRIEND. In Los Angeles, Adman Emil Reisman has started national distribution of his stickers, including USE EROGENOUS ZONE NUMBERS and HIRE THE MORALLY HANDICAPPED. "The Sticker thing," muses Reisman, "is sort of related to drawing beards on ad ladies in subways," which just about says...
...Peck's ability to drag himself away from his archaeological tomes and from Double Spy Sophia long enough to decode a message in hieroglyphics. Though Peck looks comfortable enough in the library, he resembles a stand-in for Gary Grant when he seeks refuge in Sophia's shower, fidgeting while the lady purrs: "Call me Yasmin-at least while you're in my bathroom." Boudoir comedy is not Peck's game, and he shows better form trying to explain to an enemy that there is nothing unusual about a folded slip of paper mysteriously afloat...