Word: washday
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...small lawns that we mow with gas or electric machines," he wrote. "Why not switch to manual or push lawn mowers?" And our hearts were warmed by a Durango, Colo., woman's idea: "You didn't mention drying laundry on clotheslines. Remember getting into bed that first night after washday when sheets smelled fresh? That smell is right up there with that of baking bread...
DETERGENTS By adding surfactants-two-molecule, synthetic surface-active agents-to soap granules, Procter & Gamble created a washday miracle. Dreft was first, in 1933. The big gun, Tide, arrived...
...Will this be some arch exercise with dancers dressed up as bubbles or boxes? A soggy bit of social criticism? A spoof on Balanchine's Snowflake Waltz in The Nutcracker? No, Mark Morris' latest creation, commissioned by Dance Umbrella of Cambridge, Mass., is a lighthearted, structurally elegant look at washday...
...action speeds up, they swing rolled- up sheets that churn around Penny Hutchinson, who plays a sort of heroine- housewife. Set to music and words by Herschel Garfein, the fantasy moves from borderline silly to giddily lyrical. Morris laughs at soap-company ad pitches but not at the washday ritual. For the indomitable housewife he has open affection...
Exaggeration is an intoxication of words. Language temporarily loses its self-control; it veers around ther room making drunken passes at reality, biting its ear, whispering hyperhole, evem drooloing a little; YOUR SEARING GUT-WRENCING WORK IS THE LITERALLY EVENT OF THE DECADE . . .SPELLBINDING . . . MAGNIFICENT. . . A WASHDAY MIRACLE, WHITER THAN WHITE . . . A NEW STANDARD BY WHICH ALL THOROUGHBRED DRIVING MACHINES WILL BE MEASURED . . . I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU . . . I AM NOT A CROOK. I WILL BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET . . . WE'LL GET MARRIED AS SOON AS THE DIVORCE COMES THORUGH . . . such episodes leave a man feeling like...