Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soap was in such short supply that a doctor complained in a weekly newspaper that physicians were unable to wash their hands properly. New mothers were discharged from hospitals after only a day for fear that their babies might contract an infection if they stayed longer. Indeed, because of the poor diet, the lack of medicines and even rudimentary hygienic supplies, the population was suffering from an epidemic of viruses...
...profits of family-owned textile businesses amounted to $1.5 billion last year, or about as much as Montedison and the rest of the chemical industry lost. Prato has 15,000 "factories," of which 13,000 employ ten people or fewer. The yellow stucco houses present strange sights: family wash hanging out of the upstairs windows, while lower floors are filled with spindles, looms and dye vats...
...just does not wash. One is left with a succession of classy, spooky images, a titillated but unsatisfied imagination and the feeling that there is both less and more here than met Pakula's excellent eye. -By Richard Schickel
...swishes around in a role clearly a couple of sizes too large for him. It might be kindly suggested to him that he take advantage of the Christmas season to return it for one that fits his limited capacity more closely. Lynn Bowman, the cleaning woman who seems to wash in and out of the office with alarming regularity, struggles vainly with her chronically undeveloped character. As the three of them sit about Arthur's office, playing with "I think that you think so" lines, we are left to wonder whether Mamet wants to make us seriously believe that writers...
...BACTERIAL WASH...