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...hear, for example, that Japan's export-oriented trade policy has caused Japanese consumers to suffer excruciatingly high prices for basic foodstuffs, or that (as Irwin Seltzer has noted in Commentary) a Japanese worker of average income is 20 times more likely to be without indoor toilet facilities than is a poor American...
...gays? "We're not asking Hollywood to make Gone With the Wind or Jurassic Park. They don't have to bankrupt the company or defraud the stockholders. We're talking $10 million or $15 million -- less if you try hard. To Matsushita or Sony or Disney, $10 million is toilet-paper money...
...tenant, Trokovsky (Roman Polanski), runs with the third option during his Parisian flathunt. Which would be fine, were the film to intrigue us by exploring the roots of his fixation with the dead woman. But unfortunately the only exploring we do is of the gloomy apartment and of the toilet opposite--where a series of unknown characters stand motionless for hours, staring at our hero. As these onlookers pushed Trokovsky steadily round the bend, the film's unanswered questions drove me equally mad with curiosity: Why doesn't Trokovsky just move into another apartment? Why does he always keep...
...said a similar incident occurred the night before. "On Monday night there was [feces] smeared all over the toilet seat," Faleafine said. "It was kind of funny, kind of stupid, kind of disgusting...
...many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled bad") and his first attempt at sexual intercourse. Its consummation was thwarted, he explains, by his failure to successfully remove the bathing suit of one of his female classmates ("the experience impoverished my soul...