Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilmot said he believes the University should pay for the students' damages. He said Lowell House Superintendent Jay W. Coveney and his assistant told him the flooding was caused by a broken toilet pipe...
...mental health, down to the latest mood swing. Many mental illnesses once thought to be purely psychological conditions--among them schizophrenia, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and ocd--turn out to be caused by specific chemical imbalances. Those who suffer from them are racked not by toilet-training traumas or the "unceasing terror and tension of the fetal night" (as an early psychoanalyst put it) but by something as simple--and complex--as an imperfectly mixed chemical cocktail. The Oedipus complex has been reduced to a matter of molecules...
Many of us who didn't face long walks instead had to contend with rooms in various states of disrepair. In my Leverett room, upon arrival, four of six window screens were broken, paint was chipped on the walls, heaters and ceiling. The toilet seat was broken, sink faucets leaked, the door basket was ripped off, a light fixture was missing, a door handle was loose and curtains did not close...
...December Sigal read about the dilapidated condition of restrooms in city schools. He immediately dispatched workers from his firm to make repairs. Since then he has led a coalition of business leaders, community groups and students to upgrade and restore toilet facilities in local schools. Says Sigal: "It's almost like building a building...you dig a foundation, and you see something grow. You feel fulfilled...
...hundreds of both computer-animated and real roaches--none of whom, unfortunately, were harmed in the making of the film--director John Payson zips us quickly from one six-legged musical number to another. In between, comedy both broad and cynical provides filler of wildly varying quality: both toilet humor (literally: Joe works for a urinal cake company and woos Lily with fertilizer) and toilet humor with a difference (a musical band named for what it sounds like...