Word: toilets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trip to paradise. Lucey and Brzoza loved their summer on Seguin Island but note that they couldn't drink the water (they had to bring it in once a week), couldn't do laundry with the water (they laundered with captured rainwater) and didn't have a working toilet in their quarters (they had to walk 400 feet down an embankment to a compost toilet). Still, the beauty and seclusion of the island outweighed the inconveniences...
...archeological curiosity?one of the first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage in India is endless," says Thakur, head of New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture and widely regarded as India's leading conservationist. "But year by year, even the best is disappearing. It's a crisis, a scandal. If we don't act, we're going to lose...
...sabotage in Greenwich will be added to a national bill that is already of staggering proportions-and it is rising steeply every year. No one can fix an accurate price tag on vandalism, which is not always reported, not always identifiable as such and covers everything from toilet graffiti to arson. But the U.S. Office of Education in Washington sets the annual cost of destruction in public schools alone at more than $100 million. In New York City, the cost of school vandalism amounted to an estimated $6,500,000 last year. Public telephones are another prime target; some...
...small '50s table lamp illuminate the Eighth Street Playhouse. In Dr. Frank's old dark house, where Brad and Janet are seduced in turn by the extraterrestrial transvestite, they meet their old science prof Dr. Scott (Jonathan Adams) and in Washington the air is filled with streamers of Scott toilet paper. Frank (Tim Curry) proposes "a toast," and burnt toast pops up at a Chicago theater. At the end, when a betrayed Frank sings about "cards for sorrow, cards for pain," the cognoscenti in Berkeley mournfully toss playing cards aloft...
...would inevitably "bury" the U.S. by surpassing the American standard of living. Quite the opposite: the U.S.S.R.'s economic growth rate has slipped to about half the pace of the 1960s, and its citizens still have to stand in long lines for such minor amenities of life as toilet paper and detergent powder. On the most basic level, Moscow must import huge tonnages of grain from the capitalist world to keep the Soviet populace properly...