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Wednesday, January 12--OK, the morning was killed today. You woke up late, read a few papers, took a shower and watched Fonzie don a kimono (Arnold was getting married...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Food For Thought, Not Consumption | 1/19/1977 | See Source »

...student returned to her room in Dunster House last year to find her bed in the shower and her furniture in the hall and repairmen had made a hole in the wall to find a leak. Another student returned to Quincy House to find several thousand dollars worth of camera equipment destroyed...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Heating Policy Over Vacation Goes Smoothly | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...daughter at the slightest hint of sin rearing its ugly head within Carrie. Mrs. White (played by Piper Laurie) has plainly left her mark on Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek); naive almost beyond belief, Carrie is utterly traumatized by the experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less) in the opening scene. She cannot find relief from the mockery of her more sophisticated peers at home; a healthy dose of Scripture and a spell of confinement in a cell-like closet is the evangelist-mother's prescription...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: I Was a Teenage Telekinetic | 12/15/1976 | See Source »

...fourth-ranked Mark Panarese had the easiest time of things. He allowed just 12 points in a 15-7, 15-4, 15-1 blitz and after the match the big question was whether or not Panarese had worked up enough of a sweat to merit a shower...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Perfection at Hemenway: Racquetmen Blank Army | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...been done (one would bet) in most high-school auditoriums, gymnasiums and summer-stock tents in America. It's been done by Guy Lombardo on water and by Fred Zinnemann in Cinemascope. On any given night, its score can be heard in a solid minority of the nation's shower stalls. I myself appeared in a fine 1967 production at South Orange Junior High School. As a member of the Cowboy Chorus who piped, "O.K. Aunt Eller!" and "I bid two bits!" in unison with the rest of the Cowboys, I consider myself especially fit to discuss the production...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Waving Wheat Still Smells Sweet | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

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