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...purple mat matching the curtains covered the rotten section of floor around the toilet in another apartment. The man pulled up the mat to show the splintered piece of plywood which separated the bathroom from the basement. The buzzer system in stalled after Jane Britton was murdered is already falling off the wall. "It's crazy to raise the rent--the place is a dump." He said the kitchen is full of roaches every morning...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: You Smell the Grass But Can't Make Flowers Grow | 4/19/1969 | See Source »

...three-quarters of a mile from parking lot to terminal, then on to the departure gate through hundreds of yards of echoing, aseptic corridors. Another is the need to stand in line: passengers must queue up to check in, make phone calls, grab a bite to eat, use the toilet, claim baggage, hail a cab. The whole airport experience sometimes becomes such an ordeal that just to enter the airplane is itself a relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON FLYING MORE AND ENJOYING IT LESS | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...only did the sturdy Irishman go without a trophy, he had to go without a shower since the host, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is lacking in this particular facility. In fact, plumbing is not an Eagle strongpoint--the number one toilet there was imperfect in that it did not flush. The bar, however, was exquisite...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: McMahon Takes First--But not Trophy In the New Bedford 30-Kilometer Race | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

...holding the post of Assistant Human Opportunities Commissioner in New York City, he renders his past absurd in an attempt to lessen its painful grip on him. He keens the familiar tale of the strongwilled, overattentive mother and the castrated father. He tells how his mother fondled him during toilet training, how she eroticized the insides of his ears while removing the wax, and how she forced him to eat at knife point. Portnoy is continuingly being floored by the fact that she could be so unconscious of the unconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sex Novel of the Absurd | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Nixon Administration. In this month's issue alone, she gave out the seal to four deodorants; surely her sampling of them puts her at the top of this field. And she has the word on may other, more special, goods too. She seems to be quite up on toilets and their accessories, for example, as evidenced by her granting of the seal to a toilet seat that is "the seat of the in house" and to a toilet bowl cleaner that "is the one that makes you feel safer." This is service well beyond the normal call of duty; what...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Bad Housekeeping | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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