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...John Bratby, 27, who brought gallerygoers up short at his last show with his bluntest tour de force: two stark paintings of a toilet bowl...
Tristram von der Fingern Lachen sneered down his wrinkled nose at the pampered dandies around him. His aristocratic toilet-a bath in olive oil and a dousing with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed...
...that! It's a nightmare, I swear! No plumbing whatsoever anywhere . . . And I, fool, came to these lands! The little girl got caught. Ha! Ha! . . . And who asked me to come? No one. Not only nobody asked me, I was even warned against it ... And there is no toilet, just snow up to the neck . . . Between ourselves, one could have a nice zoo over here, because every night the wolves are howling, like in a movie. My darling idiot, you got caught. All my friends are now having their hair fixed in a beauty shop, and I, miserable girl...
...lived in the buckle of Paris' red belt-the dingy factory suburb named for St. Denis, when only 2,000 of 25,000 people ever go to church. Here, in a tiny, fourth-floor walk up with a cold-water tap in the back court and one toilet to 16 families, he directs the work of his 25 missionar> women in the Paris factory districts, at Lille, in the port cities Le Havre anc Toulon - as well as a 30-bed rest home for working girls in Mont d'Halluin...
...Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...