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...meanwhile running his hand along the tops of doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread. In a bathroom, he climbed into the tub, fully clothed, to test its leg room, then turned on the shower?soaking his jacket in the process...
Life in California freed Nabokov of the need to write in the bathroom. But he needed all his astonishing powers of concentration and creative effort for the challenge now facing him. "It had taken me some 40 years to invent Russia and Western Europe," he wrote of the problem, "and now I was faced by the task of inventing America...
...floor, the Nabokovs' apartment is a warren of small rooms. Directly below is a. room for their son Dmitri, who visits when he can take time from his operatic career in Milan. When he is in residence, the tone-deaf father sings gleefully in the bathroom until Dmitri makes him stop...
When some executives of the bathroom fixtures industry gathered at their trade association meeting seven years ago, it seemed only natural that they get together over cocktails in the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel room of Daniel Quinn. He was then president of the Plumbing Fixture Manufacturers Association and a vice president of American Standard Inc., the industry leader. Congeniality was the order...
...companies that chose to fight -American Standard, Kohler and Borg-Warner-were accused of conspiring to boost the prices of bathroom fixtures, collectively regulating trade discounts and agreeing to drop cheaper lines. The charges held that an informal cartel operated from...