Word: showering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...
...goal is not to keep politics from infecting governance but to keep money from infecting politics. Comically arbitrary procedural rules that allow fund raisers on Tuesday but not Thursday, or ban donors from the White House bathtub but not the shower, don't merely miss the point. These rules also deodorize a lot of smelly behavior, even as they exaggerate the stink of other behavior that is no worse...
...gone to work for the family business. Uhry juggles a lot of elements with no evident strain: creating a believable family that seems both quirky and emblematic; exploring issues of Jewish self-hatred; giving hints of The Glass Menagerie and then taking a sharp right turn. Hollywood will probably shower the play with stars, but most likely will miss the delicacy of Ron Lagomarsino's understated direction and Dana Ivey's touching performance as Lala's stern, no-nonsense mother. She can get a laugh and evoke a lifetime of prefeminist frustration with a single line ("If I were running...
...Like powder after a shower? Save it for your feet. Research suggests that applying powder or deodorant spray to the genital area can increase a woman's risk of OVARIAN CANCER. The worst offender: the sprays, which may up the odds...
...Other tips from UHS: try taking a warm shower (or bath) before going to sleep; try lying on the floor with your eyes closed, breathe deeply through your nose until your abdomen and chest fill with air and then let it out; go somewhere private and yell or stomp around to let off steam...