Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tub-and-toilet dynasty
Henry IV, Part 1, has one huge epicenter, that Santa Claus of roguery, Sir John Falstaff. The old knight is as nimble of wit as his belly is full of sack, a braggart, a liar, a thief, a cynic and a coward, but with all that an irresistibly endearing tub of bubbling jollity. Early on, Falstaff (Joss Ackland) chides the heir apparent Prince Hal (Gerard Murphy), who has made the Boar's Head Tavern his home away from the castle, for leading him into evil ways...
...from that lovely little town right up the street from Hollywood, the home of the hot tub and the avocado salad, Mariska Hargitay, 18, this year's Miss Beverly Hills. Mariska is the offspring of Actress Jayne Mansfield, who died when her daughter was three years old, and Mickey Hargitay, a former body builder turned real estate investor. Following in her mother's footsteps, young Hargitay will enter U.C.L.A. next fall, where she will be a theater arts major. Her 36-24-36 frame may lack some of the oomph of her mother's famed...
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY temporarily cancelled plans for a badly needed addition to the Fogg Museum in February, citing a shortage of funds. Harvard's every tub on its own bottom approach to financial accounting was widely held to blame. Though that principle makes fiscal sense, Harvard has often seemed inflexible in waiving it to meet pressing needs...
...returned from work, and the children are home from school. People gather in family groups on the sidewalks along the backstreets of Xian. A young girl stands by the public water well getting water for her family. An old woman washes her extended family's clothes in a metal tub. Another woman shreds cabbage and slices vegetables in preparation for the evening meal. A grandmother sits watching her grandchildren play as she mends shoes, and a man hunches over a chair he is mending. It is the quietest time of the day. Families sit together outside their homes, the women...