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...They were a raggedy bunch and they didn't know how to use things. One guy just squatted on the wash basin. So we showed them how to use the toilet. The shower was the big hit. Once we showed them how to use it, they had a ball. One guy held the gun, and the rest piled in under the shower. Some times they were afraid of things they did not understand...
...stories. Inflation was ravaging the Colonies (beef was up 114% in three months), and in distant Viet Nam, a civil war was raging (rebels captured the settlement of Ta Ngon, or Saigon, in the spring of 1776). The research also unearthed some fascinating minutiae: there was only one working toilet in the Colonies - property of a former Royal Governor of Maryland; the na scent sport of golf was played with feather-stuffed leather balls; Boston stores had just begun selling a new gadget called the umbrella...
This excitement doesn't come from witty titles like Dean-Askin's Bottcellis parody. The Dearth of Venus of Ta Kuang Chang's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mouna L a. Nor does it show up in Carlo G. Brogna's paating of a toilet with an accompanying roll of toiled paper tacked to the wall. Julia Allard's say of three mouths-obviously an assignment from a drawing class-is less striking than any of these but also more hosest. Because it's good--she's taken a simple exercise and brought life...
...their first destination in America: Camp Pendleton in Southern California. Small-businessmen and Saigon bureaucrats, their faces etched with fatigue and suffering, their tight-lipped wives stifling tears, their children staring blankly in the bright sunlight, filed into the camp. There they were issued mattresses, bedclothes and kits containing toilet articles, sandals and one candy bar each. Inside the tents and Quonset huts hastily erected for the emergency, the refugees finally gave way to emotions stored up over weeks of anxiety. In their first communal act in America, they embraced and wept...
...Sticks and Bones, which distorts these stereotypes without ever quite leaving them behind. Rabe is out to spare us nothing. Not only do characters in this particular situation comedy have to go the the bathroom; worse, they come out with lines like "I want to drink from the toilet and wash there." This is precisely what Rabe wants us to do--to rub our noses in all that is sordid and smelly in the way of life we've spent so much blood trying to inflict on the rest of the world...