Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ENDEARING that you are always the one who is trapped on the seat after discovering that there is no toilet paper? Is it endearing to roll over on the bottom bunk into the piping hot radiator? Regularly reoccurring events should not be confused with events should not be confused with events that are desirable. For some reason people seem to have trouble keeping this distinction clear...
...beloved maternal grandmother. Nanny used to tie a rolled Christian Science Monitor around her waist so her "insides wouldn't fall out." She took Carol to the movies; then, "when it was time to go home, we'd go to the bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper dispensers, sheet by sheet. And we'd be set for another few weeks." Burnett's parents were both alcoholics. Their half resentful, half forgiving daughter recalls them in memorable images: her mother passed out with their pet parakeet Tweetie passed out on top of her. ( Such scenes show that...
...license mementos including T shirts and reproductions of the pen used by the signers in 1787. Still, the group insists commercialism will be kept to a minimum. "We're not looking to junk it up," says Executive Director of Programming Fred Stein. "We don't have an official toilet seat, nor will...
...Volunteers working for such private charitable organizations as Catholic Relief Services, Band Aid or Oxfam often live in spartan quarters and work exhaustingly long hours. In Khartoum, Alastair Scott-Villiers, 26, supervises the distribution of $22 million in Band Aid relief from a dingy hotel room that lacks a toilet or bath. His annual salary is about $14,000. Outside the capital, Liz Hughes, 25, shares a hut in the crumbling village of Mayo with two other Irish nurses. The threesome, who each receive $60 a month from Goal, an Irish relief group, has been helping to clean...
Other works on display include Francois Boucher's "Mme. de Pompadour and her Toilet," Kirchner's "Self-Portrait with a Cat," the Egyptian "Stele of Ramses II," and the likenesses of such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Sophocles, Louis XIV, Nero, and Oliver Wendall Holmes...