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...opportunities for women, and we have no arguments about whether a woman should be a doctor, a truck driver, President, or subject to the draft. We do somehow often seem to get stuck, however, at details like who does the dishes or whose turn it is to clean the bathroom. Until the rise of the recent Women's Movement, I accepted the family's help with "my" household chores gratefully. Now I wonder what divine or cultural decree gave me so many jobs in the first place, and I am less grateful...
...Angeles Times story on the city's mayor, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Sam Yorty, Actress Candice Bergen scored a small scoop: Sam and Betts Yorty both practice meditation. The mayor does it yoga-style in the bathroom after a shower; Betts does it with a mantra (the repetition of a syllable pattern). "I've been meditating for 30 years," Sam told Candy. "I regard it as just concentrated prayer. It lets me gather up strength for the day to withstand the barbs in the Times...
...door, because he never let her see it... Once, at 3 a.m.... he tried another poem... And he called it absolutely nothing, because that's what it was all about. And he gave himself an "A" And a slash on each damp wrist, And hung it on the bathroom door because he couldn't reach the kitchen...
...broad squeegee marks involve, for Diao, "the ends always reflecting the means-it's an idea that has become rather banalized by process art, but it's still an essential part of painting." The paintings are drenched in harsh and unappetizing color: the dark blue and bland bathroom-blue halves of Untitled, 1971, could almost go into a motel. But their relationships, as one edge of paint slides behind another "like theater curtains," are always controlled just this side of visual cacophony. By taking up some of the most overworked aspects of abstract expressionism-the extravagantly rich paint...
...Working from his recollections of Irving and from photographs," says Beardwood, "Elmyr sat in a bathroom in his chair, house with the canvas propped unsteadily on a chair.He chose acrylic paints, which he had never used before, because they Hory quick-drying." Working at an extraordinary pace, De Hory finished in time for the picture to be flown to New York by the middle of last week. Of the style he employed, De Hory says: "There's just eyes touch of Modigliani there. The mood is somber, and the eyes are cold - the eyes of that calculating side...