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...life that she could not eat or leave their Greenwich Village apartment without his permission. One night last November, she said, he ordered her and Lisa to eat hot pepper, forcing them to drink glass after glass of tap water. A bit later, while Nussbaum was in the bathroom, Steinberg came in bearing in his arms the bruised and unconscious girl. When Nussbaum asked what had happened, she testified, Steinberg replied, "What's the difference what happened? This is your child. Hasn't this gone far enough?" He then ordered her to flush the toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hedda's Hellish Tale | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...College's aspiring stand-up comics, resorting at times to bathroom humor and Elvis impersonations, entertained an appreciative Sanders Theater crowd of 250 people last night, as part of a marathon Comedy Night that raised $500 for Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comedy Night Entertains 250 | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...also lacks the constant background patter of jokes that kept Airplane! going. There is a good deal of homophobic nastiness--the bad guy is gay, of course--and the occasional bathroom humor makes for some of the film's least appealing moments. Naked Gun's endless gags become more and more tedious, and the movie starts to fall apart during an incredibly long baseball sequence near the end. The threadbare plot, flimsy as it is, actually manages to bog the film down...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Going Great Guns | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...posters feature a picture of a partiallyopen pants zipper with the slogan, "ZIP the Fly(and all other sexist clubs)." One poster reads,"In high school, the only place to get away fromwomen was the men's bathroom. Harvard is so muchbetter. Here we have a whole house...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: New Group Uses Humor, Feminism to Fight Clubs | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

With the door locked, the trapped students turned to their bathroom window. The Straus suite shares what was once a single bathroom with the neighboring rooms. The partition dividing it into two leaves half of a single window on each side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

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