Word: showering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I came out of the shower I asked where my equipment was, and they said they'd turned it in. They hadn't put it in my locker." Martucci began to be more doubtful about his return...
...Cold Shower. Bridget Riley's paintings are nearly always made of such a formal unit-dot or stripe or ellipse-repeated and multiplied with tiny changes of position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that...
...search for what cannot be disintegrated is intense, forcing the viewer to re-examine that perilous equilibrium we like to call normality. "We have to submit to the attack in the way we have to learn to enjoy a cold shower-bath," wrote Bridget Riley's admirer and mentor, the perceptual psychologist Anton Ehrenzweig. "There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around...
...gimmicks, there are other reasons for the upsurge in luxury motels. In many suburbs the cocktail lounge of the local motel has become an after-hours social center. Vacationing patrons of the nation's 427,000 campsites often make periodic visits to a motel for a shower and a respite from the rigors of outdoor life. And increasing numbers of Americans, reluctant to fight traffic, spend their vacations or long weekends at a cushy motel right in their own town...
...Harvard when his father was U. S. Ambassador to England. "And, of course, the family name-the photographers would come down to take pictures of swimmers, and the first fellow they always wanted to get hold of was Jack Kennedy. And Jack would hide. Always hide in the shower room. And it took tremendous efforts to finally bring him out to have his picture taken," his swimming coach told researchers for the Kennedy Library...