Word: showering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people get their brainstorms while singing in the shower. Boris Popov had his during a death-defying plunge in a crashing hang-glider. "I was about 500 ft. up over Lake Owasso," says the Minnesota businessman of the 1977 accident. A powerboat that was towing his craft over the water throttled up too fast and literally pulled Popov's gossamer wings apart. "I got all caught up in the material and was petrified. I had a lot of time to think on the way down, and I promised myself that if I survived, I would figure...
...showcase not a star but a writer. Anderson plays humor columnist Dave Barry, a beleaguered family man facing a classic baby-boomer problem: trying to raise three kids while grappling with the realization that he is no longer a kid himself. He sings I Am the Walrus in the shower (then looks at his body and exclaims, "I am the walrus!"), and can't get up the fatherly gumption to force his son to play soccer. Dave's World is the most charmingly laid-back sitcom of the new season, mainly because Anderson handles his vehicle shrewdly...
...repeatedly approached them...I'm veryserious about what people in my union deserve,"Kotowski said. "We've pointed out to them the factthat we need showers, that we need cleanerbathrooms." Kotowski said he proposed that ifrenovating the showers was too expensive, thedepartment should consider purchasing aself-contained shower at a lower cost...
...stated a number of different reasons whywe need to have an adequate shower, nothing fancy:If an officer got in a struggle in a street, wereexposed to someone filthy, or bodyfluids--something more serious--someone thatreally stunk, or if someone worked a twelve-hourshift and would like to take a quick shower inbetween shifts, it would be nice to have a placeto freshen up," Kotowski said. "If you get in afight with a filthy homeless person, there shouldbe some specific strong soaps...
...There are very few police departments that donot even have adequate shower facilities," theunion president added. "We've asked and asked andasked and been told it's not in the real estatebudget...