Word: showering
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...critical that you keep things in perspective during the suite selection process. Your Harvard experience will not be defined by the four walls that surround you, but by the people that surround you. So what if your shower head is only about four feet high and one section of floor in your common room is permanently sticky? You’ll adjust better than you realize. As hard as it is to believe now, your happiness next year is not directly proportional to the amount of square feet in your room. It is, however, inversely proportional to the amount...
...surprising, then, that this intersection of reality and unreality centers on money, arguably the core value of American society today: How else can anyone explain former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain? Second Life suggests that this warped valuation controls not only our real world, but also our fantasy world—a very troubling thought...
...After five days in a concrete and iron-bar tank, with no food and only a few sips of water, my skin was flaking and my clothes were slipping off. A prison blanket had given me lice. The water I had palmed from a rusty tap in the shower had given me diarrhea. Under a 24-hour strip light, I hadn't slept more than a few minutes at a time. And I stank. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their smell on the walls, and while I was making my own stink...
...four-hour stay. That will be possible because he plans to roll out Yotels at airports (a Heathrow Yotel is slated to open this summer) and other travel hubs such as train and subway stations, where guests in transit may require rooms only for a shower and a nap. Like restaurants that turn over tables many times an evening, "We think we can let the rooms 21/2 times a day," Woodroffe says - that's a target occupancy rate...
...days, but it also proves that when it comes to eroticism, of the true or even exploitation variety, these directors are such cowards. If they use sex at all, it is in the horror-film mode pioneered by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Show a woman in a shower, then kill her. The impulse is both prurient and puritanical; they provide a brief voyeuristic pleasure, then feel obliged to punish the women, and the audience, and themselves...