Word: bath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CORK LINING. Ettore Sottsass Jr., a thoughtful Milanese designer intent upon creating an environment that is a "diagram of psychic processes, a therapeutic act," is now completing a Milan apartment lined with cork-faced linoleum, without furniture save for kitchen and bath fixtures...
...toilet is enclosed in an undulate black fiber-glass column that rises to the ceiling. There are no walls between sleeping, living and bath areas, which are raised two steps above the sitting and eating zones...
...pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic disorders, most of them serious...
...tragic reality of My Lai and what it stands for is being avoided in two ways. One is by concluding that the fault is universal and therefore requires a universal bath of guilt, comforting in its generality. The other is by pretending that what happened was necessary and even commendable. The first view insists on the original sin of American Viet Nam policy and holds that Presidents should go to jail. Apart from having obvious legal flaws, the "we-are-all-guilty" position presents a moral trap: if everyone is guilty, no one is guilty or responsible, and the very...
...Komsomolsky Prospekt, enabling the average Soviet citizen to buy fresh caviar for the first time in recent years. Across from Moscow's city hall, an Italian-built, self-service supermarket went into operation, offering Bulgarian chickens, Spanish oranges, Moroccan sardines. Established shops blossomed with chinaware, meat grinders, bath towels and other goods that have long been scarce...