Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLAYBOY CHAPTER is particularly amusing and thought-provoking, but many other passages in The Hearts of Men deserve close scrutiny. Whether Ehrenreich is examining the macho image as portrayed in films of the '70s or having a good laugh about the hot-tub culture, she substantiates her claims with a rich store of medical, psychological, and popular articles, as well as more than a few personal accounts. Many of her points are made with graceful subtlely. Others, while sometimes questionable in their logic, are direct and often funny. At one point, examining the link, among the New Right, of anti...
Trevor has not missed the comic side of the sexual revolution. Lovers of Their Time finds a travel-agency clerk and a shop girl meeting daily in an unused hall bathroom of a commercial hotel. It is an ample facility where the couple picnic, frolic in the tub and plan their future before catching the train home: she to her mother, he to a randy wife. Tristram and Isolde as commuters in a tiled cave of love is an entertaining conception. Trevor does more; he dignifies the lovers with a deep understanding of their passions and the mundane force that...
Silicon Valley has become famous for a laid-back corporate-management style that includes hot-tub conferences. Now along comes Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a leading semiconductor maker, with the valley's first primer on business: High Output Management (Random House; 235 pages...
There are, of course, complicated explanations of every tub on its own bottom financing, of intricate financing, etc, that prevent direct comparisons. Yet it seems somewhat perplexing that such high quality concerns do not permeate cost decisions on minor student life issues, such as quality food, feeding graduating seniors during Commencement Week, consistent dorm heating, longer library hours--even carpeting the treacherously squeaky floors in Lamont...
...technician named Wayne Dickinson, washed up on the rocks of Ireland in God's Tear, 142 days after setting sail from Point Allerton, Mass. God's Tear, indeed; Dickinson's boat was about 2 in. shorter than Dunlop's. McClean now had two American tiny-tub artists to beat, and earlier this month he succeeded, despite a broken mast in the Bay of Biscay, reaching Portugal in the bobtailed Giltspur, now a mere 7 ft. 9 in. overall. "The more people say a thing can't be done," said he, "the more I think...