Word: bather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tubs are now fit for no one. They should be longer and contoured to the bather's body. More hand holds and a nonslip surface are needed to reduce accidents. Since washing in dirty water is a poor way to get clean, hand sprays are proposed to allow bathers to step out of the tub completely cleansed...
...much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
...frontality of Thiebaud's figures (see opposite page) outdoes that of the Sphinx. Each personage-a hulking pro football player, symmetrical in size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone-juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background. The whiteness helps isolate the image; the garish fluorescent lighting that commercialism loves bathes everything in its frigid glare. Thiebaud makes long, curling highlights out of polychromatic contours that do not exist outside...
Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
...demonstrate his support for the force, De Gaulle last week donned flowing white robes and, looking more Delphic than ever (or perhaps like a bather), inspected two key nuclear plants, Pierrelatte (which is reportedly several months behind target) and Cadarache. On his 20th provincial tour, he treated audiences to some of the most chauvinistic speeches they have yet heard from De Gaulle. He emphasized repeatedly that France "will remain detached" from the "two great colossi," Russia...