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...gives no more shade than a swizzle stick. The house has the frank, bleak starkness of the cut-rate. Its interiors are minimalist, and grimly candid about it. No woodwork, no extras, no little frills of gentility any more. No front hall. One bathroom, with the cheapest fixtures, no bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...mechanism, for example, allows Cavalier to be guided by automatic pilot, but no one trusts it for work hi shallow waters. Says Seaman Aaron Hairston, 33: "If you had an accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Alaska: A Race Through the Arctic Ice | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Harvard student who practically subsidizes Baker Library with $200 library fines, but who has been hired by investment bankers at Morgan Stanley? Who tells dirty jokes, but makes her roommates say the punchlines? Who loves to take showers but has been known to stack 13 beer kegs in her bathtub? Photo sums it up: "I think I'm sorta normal...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Photo, Photo, Photo, Photo | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...author devised a scheme highly appropriate to the life of his subject. The book opens in the spring of 1884 with a tired and white-bearded Whitman, who has just purchased a house in unlovely (Kaplan's word) Camden, N.J. This is the Whitman who splashes in the bathtub, sleeps late, and depends on a cane to move around. In the second chapter, Kaplan describes Whitman's last days. The rest of the biography takes Whitman's life in chronological order from his birth in chapter three, so our last picture of the poet frames the 65-year-old moving...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: America's Gentle Giant | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

Model Housewife Pat Kramer has this itty-bitty problem. She is shrinking. Perhaps because of prolonged exposure to hundreds of household chemicals, Pat is growing smaller day by day-even as she continues to shop for the family groceries, scour bathtub rings and battle waxy buildup. "She's the kind of person who is going to make the best of it," explains Comedian Lily Tomlin, who plays Kramer in The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a film due for release in January. The sets, says Tomlin, include "a life-size kitchen, one for when I am 3-ft. tall, a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1980 | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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