Word: tub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...
...Most of Wagner's customers spend between $250 and $2,500 to renovate and redecorate their bathrooms, and the emphasis is on the higher end of that scale. "You can do a very very beautiful bathroom for $2,500," says Wagner. One customer has ordered a carved marble tub measuring 6 ft. by 4 ft. inside. Its cost: about $10,000. His latest conversation piece is a $1,600 toilet called "Sitting Pretty," made from marble and onyx, with a carved wooden seat cover...
...Radclie Institute, and day-care. They question the necessity for immediate merger and propose alternatives such as an outright gift from Harvard, cut-backs on tuition, and even the use of capital funds. They point out that Harvard's financial situation is also precarious and that the every-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy is not applicable to Radcliffe. As one alumna wrote to Gilbert, "I am unimpressed with the financial urgency of this marriage of convenience. I hope the Radcliffe trustees will not find us so weak-kneed that we cannot cut expenditures and trim our sails until...
German Actor Curt Jurgens can enjoy a good many of life's pleasures at his house on the Côte d'Azur-and all at the same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there...
...very least. Anderson agreed on both counts but added that he did not have the individual power to allow me to appear before the Committee. He had to ask the Committee's approval for this. This of course was untrue. I went home and soaked a string in a tub of water; it was very hard to push. I also began to read Kafka...