Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard police arrested four men yesterday afternoon for allegedly engaging in "open and gross lewdness" in the men's bathroom of the Science Center basement...
...brawls, drug deals and illicit sex in the rest rooms are not uncommon. In Washington's Mount Pleasant library last spring, a woman was found in a drug-induced stupor with a needle hanging out of her arm. The city's Martin Luther King facility trains cameras on its bathroom areas to discourage child molesters. The homeless, who nap at study tables and bathe in library rest rooms, are a growing constituency. To make space for regular users, the Tulsa public library in 1985 helped set up a day shelter, complete with showers and phone service...
...author's smartest move is letting Hilary tell the tale. This young woman seems peculiarly passive and affectless, not the sort to dwell on or even recognize pathos or tragedy. All perceptions -- grocery displays, radio chatter, the sight of Victor vomiting in a bathroom -- pass through her consciousness with equal weightlessness. Hilary constantly learns things that anyone her age should probably already know. She removes some pictures from the room she and Victor have rented: "When I took them from the wall I noticed that the spaces the frames had occupied were a darker shade than the rest...