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Other business deductions claimed by Nixon but questioned by the committee ranged from $22.50 for cleaning a rug in Pat's bathroom at San Clemente to $432.84 to repair the estate's ice machine to $3,331.56 for depreciation of a $4,816.84 table that he bought for the Cabinet Room in the White House. Among the other disallowed items were $5,391.43 spent from the White House guest fund on food, beverages, decorations and unspecified rentals for a masked ball given by Tricia in 1969, and $23,576 spent from the fund to feed the First Family...
Offstage Springsteen's lyric virtuosity reduced to a mumble in hip, tough dude tones. "We had a bathroom with a big gaping hole in it that looked right out into this convent. I used to tell kids that during the war an airplane crashed into it. To save face, y'know?" Thus he describes the Freehold, N.J., home where he was born in 1949. Home life was not easy, and when his folks went West prospecting for better jobs, Springsteen remained behind. At 16 he was commuting to Greenwich Village to play guitar in cafes. Self-taught, Springsteen...
...change clothes at the jail. We didn't want to have to leave our wallets, watches or other valuables lying around during the game. The guard threw a switch that opened the thick, bright orange metal sliding doors. Another guard opened the locker room, where we used the bathroom and left our coats...
...muttered ceaselessly of sanpaku--of the time when the whites of the eyes are visible beneath the iris. Sanpaku is supposed to indicate grave illness and a destined tragic end. Kim would drag herself as if on rickets to the bathroom mirror to examine her eyes. Her face looked glazed, her talk was high-wired, near frenzied with shame and self-doubt. And, not only for the sanpaku, but for the hair, yang of her body, therefore male and ugly, attributing the yangness to 22 years to meat-eating she stuck to the diet and clawed at the hair...
Scattered liberally throughout the palatial pad are some $200,000 worth of marble columns, doorways and stairs, and an ample supply of golden bathroom fixtures. Beneath the veneer of Old World elegance, the house has the very latest in electronic gadgetry: radiant wires heat up at the mere touch of a toe on a bathroom floor; an intercom system connects every room...