Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre Poujade. with his kinetic oratory and his toilet-wall slang, has better than anyone else harnessed the French citizen's growing discontent with the Fourth Republic. He seized attention by his fight against taxes, but his popularity reflects a deeper discord in the France of 1956. That discontent became hurtful with the loss of Dienbienphu. agonizing with the rebellions in Tunisia and Morocco. Now, confronted with the crisis in Algeria, the Fourth Republic faces a crisis in the existence of the parliamentary system itself...
...help in return for publicity. "It was amazing," said Cowell, "how the firms came through ... By the summer of 1955 we had everything we could possibly need, more than ?10,000 worth of supplies: two Land Rovers, portable bridge-building equipment, a free supply of gasoline . . . even toothpaste and toilet paper." To justify their adventure, the boys undertook some scientific chores for the Royal Geographical Society...
...Pint churned up a chunk of ice and batted it down with the heel of his hand. 'By Dad!' he breathed, a little god invoking himself . . . Mrs. Mathers left the room, and returned a moment later whispering that she believed in flushing the toilet before she made coffee. That was the quickest way to bring fresh water into the house...
...John Bratby, 27, who brought gallerygoers up short at his last show with his bluntest tour de force: two stark paintings of a toilet bowl...
Tristram von der Fingern Lachen sneered down his wrinkled nose at the pampered dandies around him. His aristocratic toilet-a bath in olive oil and a dousing with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed...