Word: showering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic arrangement. When Georgia was expected, Cher says, "I'd rush around, collect all of Sonny's clothes and dump them through the window into Melissa's place right across the way. One day Melissa was sitting at the table with some guests when a shower of Sonny's belongings descended on everyone. She just said, 'Oh, Cher's mother must...
...cold shower of the revolution also affected the author. She duly reports that during the three weeks she spent in Chi na, her sex drive diminished sharply...
...afternoon. He was underemployed. Calvin Coolidge slept twelve hours a night. There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...
...bench, straps weights of 20 or more pounds to each foot, then straightens his legs, building up those knee muscles injured in football. He does 25 or so push-ups and as many situps. Sweating and breathing heavily at the end of 20 minutes, he is ready for a shower...
...Shower of Gold. The French court artists of the late 17th century, like Jean Jouvenet and Charles De La Fosse, all worked under Rubens' shadow. So did François Boucher in the late 18th century, and a further succession of painters, culminating in the 19th with Eugene Delacroix. "What a magician! I get out of sorts with him at times. I quarrel with him because of his heavy forms, his lack of science and elegance. But how far he is above all those little qualities which make up the whole baggage of others ..." And the view Delacroix expressed...