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...land except it's where it is and not lost out in the real boonies of this vacant land--all of us getting all hot and drippy from the water bubbling in from the source (up 100 yards from the white bearded--that's insulation from the winter--tub big enough to fit 20 naked people) where two guys limped it into each other's laps on top of the wooden housing covering the spring, and when any sun-blistered American might have been expected, no even required, obligated, bound and beholden to roar "Fucking Faggots," Peg only muttered "Damn...
...ground by his tub, searching for its plug, his aluminum construction hat glinting in the bulging evening-got-up-in-drag-as-afternoon sky. Ruddy bearded and freckled all over and pale where his clothes would have been, he said the tub would soon be filled. His kids screamed about with the ducks and geese--silently, Peanut, his youngest daughter, tottered out of the outhouse trailing her pants about her ankles. Bridget and Jenny collected rocks. Daniel was happy and we were all a little drunk and the day was bright, never-ending, clear, pleasing us all though damn...
...didn't. And the tub filled up with some Californians and New Zealanders who had never seen a twist-off cap and everyone except Gay (out catching rabbits with Rosebud. Peg's elder daughter) leaned back against the side of the tub, sticking their feet in towards the pipe that bubbled from its center, letting the water seep above their stomachs and shoulders and higher still as Peg spun his stories and we were all quiet and sucked in and pushed out, in the steamy mineral water steamy breath...
...class. The sinewy, white-haired track veteran trained Damascus, Tom Rolfe and Chieftain, three brilliant performers. Mounted on a pony, he escorts Ruffian to and from Belmont's barn No. 34 every morning at dawn for her daily workouts. Afterward, he soaks her front legs in a tub of ice water, then he and Groom Daniel Williams pack all four legs in damp clay to keep them cool. When he is not busy with Ruffian, Whiteley can usually be found working with another of his 19 horses...
Pianist Van Cliburn, 40, who has created some waves in the music world, reached a high-water mark last week. Before leaving his hotel suite for an evening concert in Roanoke, Va., the virtuoso began running water for a bath. While the tub filled, Cliburn went to his piano, started practicing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, and quickly tuned out the rest of the world. In a dining room below, guests could not hear the maestro's music, but they were soon aware of the bath water that had flooded the pianist's quarters and started seeping across...