Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York...
...exploded for six runs in the first inning off Oakland pitcher Bob Rodriguez. Rodriguez retired to the mercy of the shower room while his teammates suffered through eight more innings and eight more runs...
...Emanuel starts undressing. But he proves far less interested in drawing water than in pouring streams of consciousness from the taps of James Joyce. It is not until page 122 that he actually enters the tub. By page 517, he has come to a decision: from now on, the shower for him. By then, it's too late. Orlovitz's waterlogged novel has gone down the drain-a victim of its own sluice-of-life...
...becomes a serious and pathetic figure; Keith Baxter's Hal knows the inevitability of his future and its consequences earlier than one would think from reading the texts. Welles' camerawork and lighting have never been more extraordinary, or less self-conscious; the spine-chilling battle must, along with the shower sequence in Psycho and the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin, be considered a supreme example of classical montage. Welles confounds one's normal sense of scene and over-all geography by employing sets and backgrounds more evocative than specific, more abstract than representative. John Gielgud, as the dying King, gives...
World's Biggest PX. Basic drives remain simple. First come good food, clean sheets and hot water. "I took four showers the first day," says SP4 Ethen Woodward, a mortarman with the 1st Infantry Division. "I hadn't had a hot shower in ten months." Some first seek out the local R & R center and gorge on fresh milk, hamburgers and ice cream. Next objective is usually, in the words of a 173rd Airborne trooper, "a girl." But, he added carefully, "I'm also very interested in the cultural bit. I figure I may only be coming...