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...finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes my bath water gurgle." On another occasion, he snapped at an admiral whose demeanor indicated he had drunk his lunch: "Well, Admiral, what do you think-that is, if you are still capable of thinking...
...plan (see diagram below) treats three floors as a unit. Student suites--typically four individual study-bedrooms and a common living room and bath--are so arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...
...Ponti is perhaps the world's top designer, and the busiest. He put up his own pavilion to display a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath in which every object is a product of his own imagination. The pavilion walls are of translucent vitreous cement in various colors. Inside are glass bookcases in which the books seem to float on air, tables whose color varies with the angle of view, an austere double bed. Asked to explain some of the items, blocky, bristly Ponti bubblingly obliged...
...Bath Is a Bath. "Good taste." for Ponti, evidently has as much to do with sense as with sensibility. "Design." he says, "must have style that is a style of its own, dictated by its function-not a style copied from the past. A frequent error is designing a bathroom too luxuriously. A bath is a bath, and not a luxury. Everything in the bathroom must work perfectly. When I wash my hands, my two forearms converge towards the middle of the basin, and what I want is not the vision of a rectangle, but a place to put down...
...answers had better be good. All the standard lures-a private bath, a TV set, a good home-are so old hat that few agencies bother to inquire. The woman who wants help soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid...