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...foot ship into a floating Elysium. Capable of 22 knots, mounting an amphibian Piaggio aircraft plus a landing craft, the yacht boasts a black-sweatered crew of 50 ("More than it needs to run a 40,000-ton tanker," says Onassis), two chefs, 42 extension phones, a bathtub that glitters with mosaic dolphins and flying fish and was copied from King Minos' palace at Knossos, and a swimming pool big enough to hold a Kennedy sloop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM CAMELOT TO ELYSIUM (VIA OLYMPIC AIRWAYS) | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

These photographs are not simple, though the visual elements are basic--a hillside, a bathtub, a mirror. The few people in these pictures are not really individuals. You've seen them all before, though you don't really remember where. They are people composed of emotions. They're a part of you, torn from you, turned into silver and pasted onto a piece of paper...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: Light | 10/9/1968 | See Source »

When you take a bath at home, who cleans the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Computerized Companions | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Bogota was an ordeal, and the Pope's aides tried to surround him with every amenity. Paul's compartment in the specially outfitted Colombian jet that carried him on the 11-hr. 50-min. flight from Rome was equipped with commercial aviation's first airborne bathtub -a convenience that even President Johnson's Air Force One does not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Pope in Latin America | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...THEATER OF THE ABSURD. A beautiful girl gets into the back seat of a Rolls-Royce,takes off her clothes and climbs into a bathtub brimming with Calgon bath oil. The Dash soap man butts into conversations and flings laundry at innocent people. "Louise Hexter," he commands, "start wearing cleaner blouses!" The shaming, the touch of half-suppressed hysteria, is unsettling. Another instance of the absurd involves the flamenco dancer who stomps the living daylights out of a Bic ballpoint pen that has been attached to his heel. Here the effect is different. One remembers all the other similar nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: . . . And Now a Word about Commercials | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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