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...years. He is happiest, however, tinkering with his $50,000 model railroad: 250 freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs through the living room, across the sun deck, through the sauna, a bathroom and a bedroom, and then out onto a trestle high above the rear patio...
...help, none was more pitiful than Almira Stampp. When Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father was in jail for a murder the child had witnessed). She became one of the school...
...summer it threatens to displace Arthur Frommer's Europe on Five and Ten Dollars a Day as the bible of the entire under-$1000-a-tour set. Frommer's ideas of nutrition have always been questionable--he recommends subsistence diets of french fries and mayonnaise, one reason why rancid bathroom stalls all over Western Europe bear the graffiti "Arthur Frommer ate here." Worse, the sheer popularity of his book is discouraging: Long lines of students form each morning at quiet "hideaways" Frommer recommends, each tired traveler trying to make his worn yellow paperback edition as inconspicuous as possible. The whole...
...players' O.K. His first opportunity came during lunch with the players and Bassett. "I didn't want to blurt it out," says Keating, "so I gave Larry the thumbs-up sign. When he didn't see it, I announced that I needed to use the bathroom. There was no reaction. On the second attempt, Larry got the hint and he followed me down the hall. When I told him, he gave me a bear hug." Keating took two more trips to the men's room with Warfield and Kiick...
...Friend is abundant with laughs, although often of the kind that one instantly regrets having laughed: adolescent fat and fag jokes, even bathroom humor. Lynn Redgrave's contribution amounts to shedding her padded underwear during half time and acting reasonably well, whenever she can forget Georgie Girl. But Rose is a lovely Rose...