Word: baths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...privately held Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis., creator of the Infinity Bath, the Super Spa and other exotica for people who want their bathrooms to be fun as well as functional. Says Chairman Herbert Kohler Jr., 43, heir to the century-old plumbing dynasty: "In times of recession, we don't pull back." Even though Kohler has had to lay off 300 of its 6,000 workers because of slow sales of some products, the company is going ahead with its most ambitious capital spending program ever. This year Kohler will invest $50 million, more than...
...company has since introduced the Infinity Bath, a kidney-shaped tub for two (price: $2,000), and the Super Spa, a giant whirlpool ($4,000) that can come with a built-in table for those who, for example, want to play poker as they soak. Kohler's masterpiece is the $12,500 Environment, a pleasure chamber that pampers bathers with "tropic rain, jungle steam, chinook winds and Baja sun," all accompanied by soothing stereo music...
After the batterings of Selma and Viet Nam, several assassinations and summers of psychedelic overload, the country needed a warm bath and a bit of soothing. What it got instead was a fresh, hard needlepoint shower from the ranks?indeed, from the home. It was a little too much. Doors slammed, windows rattled shut. The national circuits had temporarily shorted out, and, in the prevailing gloom, the feminist torches looked less like beacons than
...Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz, 9, and sometimes interrupts business meetings to take phone calls from the child...
...clue about how he must be regarded: foam rubber or not, it is wrong to call him a good trick. He is a good actor, quite capable of handling a drunk scene or of splashing about in a bathtub (though Spielberg, to his eventual regret, cut the bath scene). His co-star Henry Thomas, 10, now lonesome for E.T, says, "He was a person...