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Word: toilet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taboo line, she's not just down there on a visit. She lives there, or she has. She reminds us of what the real world at night looks like, full of bright light but also sour light and scenes that wouldn't sell much cologne. Friends on the toilet is one of her subthemes. So are blunt sex and bad housekeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: SHOTS THROUGH THE HEART | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

After a customer navigates a narrow hallway to its inglenooked bathroom, he or she needs to take another three steps to reach the toilet...

Author: By Colleen T. Gaard, | Title: Family Offers Hearty, Cheap Middle Eastern | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

Throughout the Kennedy years, Bundy took a detached centrist position on Vietnam. But early in 1965, President Johnson, who proudly called Bundy "my intellectual" but liked to humiliate him by making him give briefings while Johnson sat on the toilet, sent Bundy on a fateful fact-finding trip to Vietnam. He arrived just as the Viet Cong launched a direct attack on an American base in Pleiku. Bundy got on the phone with the White House to urge retaliation, then traveled to Pleiku. For once in his coldly rational life, his response was emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: MCGEORGE BUNDY, 1919-1996 | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...desks like the team on the short-lived software-company sitcom Dweebs. Most of us do not have catastrophe-magnet assistants afflicted with a taste for awful vintage clothing like the architects on last year's unfunny Partners. And most of us do not seek inspiration by unfurling toilet paper all over our desks like the copywriters on last season's insipid ad-world sitcom Good Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DICK MORRIS, BUT PERKIER | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...dirty little secret is out. Researchers staked out public toilets and discovered that roughly 4 out of 10 Americans do not WASH THEIR HANDS after using the toilet. Women are cleaner than men: 74% of them wash up, compared with 61% of males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 30, 1996 | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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