Word: washtub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital of Vientiane, the Laotians, eager for an end to civil war, insisted that mustachioed, Paris-educated Souphanou Vong is a Communist only because he hates the French and fears his domineering Communist wife. Word was that Souphanou Vong even washes his wife's underthings in the family washtub "because she likes me to." Some knew that he had been sent to Red China for indoctrination, but they did not take that fact seriously...
...passer-by saved her. Once again Denise tried to please her lover, but the current washed her child safe ashore out of the river. Jacques threatened to leave. Desperate at last, Denise plunged her baby head first into a zinc washtub and held her there until she was dead. Then she telegraphed Jacques. "It takes courage," Jacques told a friend in admiration, "to kill your own daughter." The police were less enthusiastic...
...those days, the Di Salle family (expanded by three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots of pasta and ruled her brood with a stern Catholic hand...
...simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created the Spanish Armada beating its way up the English Channel...
According to Tripp, teen-agers are too literal-minded to see a fleet in a washtub or a snowstorm in a handful of thrown confetti. And they want their TV villains to be recognizable blackguards. "On Mr. I." says Tripp, "you know that, underneath, the villain has a smile on his face and a sense of humor...