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...chopsticks, towels and soap and not to expect amenities. Example: a woman recently checked into a large, state-run hospital in Tokyo to have a thyroid tumor removed. She was able to get a semiprivate room. The sheets were changed only once a week and the bath and toilet were down the hall. Her sharpest recollection: "I hated to go to the bathroom. Scores of cockroaches were clustered there at night." Still, she said, "the care was excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prognosis: Steady Improvement | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...tinning runs smoothly with live piano music as the transitions between the scenes. The costumes contribute to the quality in the level of acting with each actor wearing the same sexless outfit of lavender courderoy. Matching the clever costumes are the creative sets which use different props like toilet seats as chairs and chalkboards as windows using the chalk to draw the blinds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not For Squares | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

...fundamental, existential malaise, and as he describes it, the telling of the Star Wars saga has taken a terrible toll on him. "The sacrifice I've made for Star Wars may have been greater than I wanted," he says. "After Graffiti, Star Wars could have gone in the toilet and it wouldn't have mattered financially. It's an interesting choice I made, and now I'm burned out. In fact, I was burned out a couple of years ago, and I've been going on momentum ever since. Star Wars has grabbed my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I've Got to Get My life Back Again | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...rough-and-tumble of life Reverton had learned to anticipate troublemakers. The place to be trained in what human beings were capable of was a toilet in a public building if you were the custodian who had to clean it up every nighttime. For years Rev had been one of the janitors at the county courthouse up in Way land. He had been let go after the accident, which had incapacitated him for some months ... For reasons of pride, and to justify his carrying the pistol, Rev let the family think him a railroad dick. He did live in Hamburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millvillers and Hornbeckers | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Barron said he became concerned with the problem because Central Square had become the "home, dining room, and toilet of almost thirty inebriated and homeless people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council to Battle Local Alcoholism | 5/10/1983 | See Source »

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