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THEROUX IS a clever and adopt writer, he puts a lot of funny lines into Savage's mouth. He remarks that Scaduto's wife "was one of those people who can say. "I just wrote a poem,' and make it round like, 'I just flushed the canary down the toilet'--like the maddest, most irrational act on earth." Of the English, he observes that they...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Character Assassination | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...published it. "I was ready to see a 30-ft.-sq. bath with sunken marble tub and gold fixtures, similar to the Roman baths," Windsor wrote. "What I found was a tiny room about 5 ft. by 7 ft. with a plain white lavatory and plain white tub, a toilet paper holder that does not work, and that is all. There is not a filling station in Orange or Chatham County that does not have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Captain shoots up Snowdrop, tenderly sticking a new needle into her creamy forearm. He "boots" her until she glows. Laurie, wearing a faded peignoir, picks up scattered pieces of bloody pink toilet paper and puts a fresh roll on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...some of the residents of John Adams John Quincy Adams and Washington Towers streamed outside, yelling and cheering, others dropped firecrackers, toilet paper, and flaming newspapers from their windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U Mass Blackout | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

...sweet vermouth and babbling away in a pitiful parody of her once considerable style and charm. Plante spares us few of the clinical symptoms of her senility. Emblematic of the mode of his memoir is a page-long account of the time that Rhys fell into the toilet when he failed to lower the seat after using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Half Light | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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