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Busy Schedule? Entertainment Lhat’s Heads & Tails Above The Rest. SEPT. 14-NOV. 18 UNIVERSITY !2T HEATHEN RANUEot EM) I PlAYMIA Guam's hilarious comedy HE HOUSE OF LUE LEAVES ber 5-13,1990 at 8:00 pm Bogosian's sizzling drama FALK RADIO Oct. 26 - Nov. 3,1990 at 800 pm Craig Lucas' starting biack comedy llETKIESS )V. 9-17,1990 at 800 pm AAGES OF 1KBL 1.15-17,1990 at 800 pm & Nov. 18 at 300 pm Shakespeam's B surprising comedy f MEASURE FOR p measure Feb. 22 Mar. 2,1991 Hi BROADWAY I sBowsrroPi«« j Mar 8-16,1991 at 8:00 pm & Mar. 10 at 3:00 pm (t(f| Tennessee Williams' classic ££9 a streetcar NAMEDDIuSIllE SM April 19 - 27,1991 at 8:00 pm I \09T^Stree» W ft C ®« AO®^ <M|t i tfiftHiffffffi* fl3 fit ^.AY UNIVERSITY Of NEBRASKA LINCOLN A little good clean fun 'Round' trips lead to laundry lore When I was just a kid, my big sister used to stick me in the dryer - we didn’t have a microwave then -- to shut me up. She dumped me into the cylin der, shut the door, turned the dial to permanent press and pushed ‘‘start.’’ She even cleaned the lint filter. Forty-five minutes later I emerged, a little bit red-faced, but none the worse for wear. As a result, I know more about laundry than the Maytag repairman does. And I even have a life. -4 4 Anything can happen when you stick coins into a machine that splashes and gurgles like month-old sauer kraut -f f "I’ll Tumble for You” was my favorite song. And I know, for in stance, that: • The average T-shirt takes 52,000 tumbles in a dryer before turning into a window-cleaning rag • Socks can be heated up, cooled down and hung out to dry for five years before blowing away in the wind. • Turtleneck shirts of deep for est green lose their luster after 4,000 wringings in all-color bleach. • Powdered detergent forms more suds than liquid, but it de posits crust all over your jeans. • A good washer can be double loaded 14,000 times before it’s his tory - that’s 28,000 spin cycles and 1.7 million spins. Laundry facts and figures are not very exciting. If you’re the Maytag repairman, you might have time to learn them Otherwise, forget it. Break some rules. Mix your whites and colors; put the powder detergent in after your clothes. Just make sure you do it at a Laundromat - they’re used to the abuse. At least half the machines at the average Laundromat are out of order -- the management’s way of saying the machines will eat your clothes. * That’s not unusual. Anything can happen when you stick coins into a machine that gurgles and splashes like month-old sauerkraut. Laundromats are like bars — they cause you to lose your inhibi tions. The major difference, of course, is that yesterday’s embar rassing stains, not alcohol, evapo rate your privacy. Things usually hidden in the home come out at Laundromats: leopard-skin underwear, g-strings, negligees and polyester. The freshman year in college is for bringing home your laundry on the weekend for your parents to do. That can be embarrassing when an article of your girlfriend’s/boy friend’s clothing ends up in the basket. But the real trouble starts when you r girlfriend/boyfriend sees your mother’s underwear make its way into your laundry on the return trip. Freshmen have to bring their laundry home because they are poor. Budget choices usually in volve choosing between beer or clean clothes for the weekend. A quick trip to Mom’s and Dad’s and you can have both. But if you don’t feel like going home, just turn those sweat shirts and jeans, or even your under wear, inside out. Eric Pfanner is s senior news-edito rial major and the Dally Nebraskan’s editor in chief. BE A RED CROSS VOLUNTEER . Red Cross • uxjxm AMERICAN RED CROSS CAMPAIGN NEWSPAPER AD NO. ARC-90-1641-2 COL. * 3.5“ Volunteer Agency: J. Walter Thompson Company. For information about FREE FOOD for pregnant women, infants and children under ttie age of 5, call: l-X00-^i[T]lfcllll 71_