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...increasing congestion is not the only complaint. "We used to have a layover down in the MBTA yards," one driver said, "but now we have to stay with our buses. We don't have time to get a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom or anything...
Accordingly, rollers have rolled out from bathroom cabinets and dressing-table drawers. Impossible to conceal, gaudy in color, they make a display of what was once an embarrassment. Increasingly, these Saturdays, the odd woman in almost any suburban shopping center is the one without rollers. Rollered women tread libraries and museums, department stores and movie theaters, put their rollered heads together over a bridge table, even go to confession rollered...
...once his eyebrows make a break for his brainpan, the tendons of his neck bulge in sudden constriction. Apoplexy? Withdrawal pains? Hangover? Not at all. Only a commuting executive giving himself his morning facial. Back home, blessedly unobserved, his wife is doing the same thing at the bathroom mirror...
Many traditionalists adhere to the old-fashioned methods, such as planting a roll of annotated toilet paper in the bathroom before the exam, or handing in a bluebook marked "second of two" and rushing back with book one four hours later...
...that Macy's is being undersold, they order the store to lower its prices. Not even Straus can countermand their instructions. Neither can he contradict Macy's own Bureau of Standards, the arbiter of the store's conscience. In a backstairs laboratory that looks like a bathroom choked with chemistry sets, the bureau puts 7,500 products per year (including all of Macy's own brands) through tests of fire, water, high pressure and simulated wear. Recently the testers ordered Macy's advertising department not to call a raincoat "water-resistant" because it failed...