Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front of the gaudy, gilt Buddhist temple we stopped, and approached a crowd of people, children mostly, who were squatting around a circular, white, plastic tub. Many small hands swirled in the tub's water. Each hand held a round, metal loop that had white filter paper stretched across its diameter. Hand and metal-paper extension followed swarms of multi-sized goldfish darting around the tub. Each hand and its loop was eager to win a fish by successfully scooping it out of the tub with the water-weakened paper net. Wise hands targeted the large schools of pinky-sized...
...Zeckhauser defended Scott as anadministrator who recognized the importance ofHarvard's tried and true philosophy of"every-tub-on-its-own-bottom...
Unfortunately, the scene is real. Humping the pizza boy, it seems, is some sort of statement about female empowerment. But as the others listen to the couple's moaning and discuss the interlude over white wine in the hot tub, a grumbly male critic starts to have serious questions. What happened to the ( pizza? Is all this really "an uncensored and undiluted glimpse into the heart, soul and mind of the modern American woman," as the press release says, or just a sappy brew of soap-opera banalities and feminist wish fulfillment? And would you please excuse us while...
...This business of every tub on its own bottom really doesn't stand up," Alpert said. "Spread it around, don't try to keep every tub...
...waif who lives nearby. He has visions of Bianca standing in a Sicilian glade, singing Italian love songs in her thin, pure voice. Through the bathroom keyhole he has other views of Bianca. He watches her adjust her underclothes, then sees she is not alone. Grandfather is in the tub, naked, handing her money. "Sex," Leo writes, "I discovered between ignorance and horror...