Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial uses provided almost no income for the nation's 500 water bottlers. Today, jet aircraft use purified water mixed with fuel in order to keep engines cooler during takeoffs; electric utilities use the stuff to wash insulators while the juice remains on-because the purity of the bath prevents dangerous sparking. Procter & Gamble uses millions of gallons for mouthwashes and similar items so that they will always taste the same. The builders of a new Inglewood, Calif., sports palace called the Forum fed their cement mixers exclusively with bottled water in order to provide a better-setting concrete...
BETWEEN wishes, the cook tags behind the devil as he performs his "casual mischief"--popping buttons from shirts returning from the cleaners, phoning up people in the bath, ripping the last page from Agatha Christies...
...demonstration and use of various techniques of massage. People should bring one large bath towel, vegetable oil, baby oil, and rubbing alcohol (with glycerin) and some kind of plastic bottle...
...Orlovitz's first novel may well boast the longest bath scene in literary history. As early as page 8, Lee Emanuel starts undressing. But he proves far less interested in drawing water than in pouring streams of consciousness from the taps of James Joyce. It is not until page 122 that he actually enters the tub. By page 517, he has come to a decision: from now on, the shower for him. By then, it's too late. Orlovitz's waterlogged novel has gone down the drain-a victim of its own sluice-of-life...
...Helsinki, Palmer and the eggs get themselves scrambled with a beautiful blonde spy (the late Françoise Dorléac) who is cooling it in red fox, and a jolly American spy (Karl Malden), who is sweating it in a sauna bath. Both of them are working for General Midwinter, a mad Texas multimillionaire (Ed Begley), who is operating a private CIA against Russia, coordinated by a giant walk-in computer complex-the billion-dollar brain...