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Already, he points out, automation has taken over in the bathroom-gadget department, with everything from electric toothbrushes and toothpicks to hair dryers and whirlpool agitators. More mechanized conveniences are surely coming. More important, he hopes that his report has finally lifted the "veil of embarrassment," and that the bathroom can be at last openly examined. "Until the bathroom is conceived of and produced as an entity," Kira maintains, "no significant progress can be made...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine and mangled by his all-too-painful awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Nicol Williamson nets all the screeching humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's whirlpool of words...
Willie is mad, and in this eerily brilliant little novel the reader is invited to dive down and down into the lurid whirlpool of his aberration and there circle with the weird debris of Willie until he knows in every bone of his being how it feels to be insane...
...Whirlpool Bath. The Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas, is advertised by the Chamber of Commerce as the shortest river in the world, running only four miles from its spring-fed source until it spills into the larger Guadalupe River. But some 1,200 tubers flock to it on Sunday afternoons, mostly to ride the steep, 350-yd. stretch where the river swirls like a whirlpool bath. For the sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have...
Others followed in his wake. One, an Italian daredevil named Signor Ballini, splashed into the rapids and the headlines from a tightrope 160 ft. above the water. And there were barrels. Though countless daredevils pitted their fate against rapids and whirlpool, it was only in 1901 that anyone dared barrel over the waterfall itself. Anna Edson Taylor, a middle-aged widow from Michigan, survived the venture, but three of six others who later tried the stunt died in the attempt...