Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians after 1913, construction meant more than building; it was building in a particular manner. To construct was not to carve a piece of Ivory soap (nor English Lavender, as one's taste might be), nor was it just to amass bricks into the shape of a building; rather, to construct was to put parts together emphasizing space, not mass; it was like making a match-stick house...
...Soap, toilet paper, toothpaste-everything else is supposed to come out of the personal allowance, which is $1.77 a month for the kids and $4.45 a month for me. I borrow food stamps; I'm always running short. You can't hardly survive. Everything about welfare is bad. Sure I'd like to get off-everybody wants to get off-but there's nowhere to turn...
...December, the Akron city council ordered local stores to quit selling detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Reason: phosphates, a prime source of water pollution, are forcing cities like Akron to build more and more costly sewage-treatment plants. Last week the Soap and Detergent Association, whose members produce 90% of the nation's cleaning agents, asked Akron's Summit County common pleas court in effect to void the ban. In the first such industry suit in the U.S., the plaintiffs not only called the Akron deadline "impossible" but also claimed that it will force soap manufacturers...
...this sounds like daytime TV soap opera, the play is perilously close to it-an unsettling kind of comic tearjerker. The various relationships are scarcely credible. It is impossible to believe that anyone as self-centered as the Von Furstenberg character could have nursed Evy through drinking bout after drinking bout, as she claims to have done. Maureen Stapleton gives a high-strung, neurotically personal performance, but we can never relate the woman onstage with the poster on the wall that says she once sang in Carnegie Hall. The Evy before us might be a suburban housewife in a severe...
Howe has nothing but scorn for the Millett assertion that only men have human work to do. Asks he: "Is the poor bastard writing soap jingles performing a 'human' task morally or psychologically superior to what his wife does at home, where she can at least reach toward an uncontaminated relationship with her own child...