They were the partitions of the bathhouse, but I didn't know that as I zigzagged from room to room, finding mostly grass and weeds.
The outer ring, of people I've known from the bar scene and the bathhouses, people I've met on the AIDS ward at the county hospital, where my hair salon serves dinner every other week--maybe three hundred.
If it had not been for my parents' poor role modeling, their lack of intervention, I would not have spent my teenage years in public toilets and bathhouses, behavior I still equated with homosexuality.
In Terrence McNally's 1975 comedy, The Ritz, Puerto Rican spitfire, Googie Gomez, minced no words as she informed one of the bathhouse's clients "I was in a production of Camelot once -- dat show was a piece of chit!" And yet, because of its idealism and some of its musical numbers, Lerner & Loewe's lumbering show continues to exert a strange appeal on audiences.
In his diary, Kuzmin writes of one bathhouse visit: the evening I had the urge to go to a bathhouse simply to be stylish, for the fun of it, for cleanliness.
In a rustic bathhouse beside a creek, I dipped my big toe into three rectangular pools, testing the different temperatures before settling into a soothing 98-degree bath.
Now it's time to unpeel them and assess which has done more damage: our puny winters; the snug, bathhouse-style environment I have created for the nymphomaniac local slugs; or the plants' humiliation at having spent four months dressed in packaging materials.
Now I have money, and I come to the bathhouse only to shoot breeze".
I speak English.... but I also like my Russian heritage, which I nurture through the bathhouse and through the network".
An architect, John R. Tankard III of Waban, Mass., near Wellesley, was hired to create the structural plans, but the house was modeled on a Victorian bathhouse on the outer Cape I had admired.
