Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorable event, that fall day in 1929," writes Comedian Groucho Marx, recalling the publication of his first book. Titled Beds and based on his 1920s contributions to old college humor magazines, it was a string of one-liners and double-entendres detailing uses and misuses of the mattress. It also sold like common stocks after the Crash. In fact, recalls Groucho, now 85, "during the next 40 years, people refused to have anything to do with beds. Whole families slept standing up." This month the author will try again with another edition of the book. The 1976 version will include...
...hard-betting slob, and rich into the bargain. Keaton is bright, hung up, a little tentative about sex, a maniac about keeping the house in order. Once, Gould claims, he got up to go to the bathroom at night and came back to find that she had made the bed. The movie is similarly witless throughout. There are many attempted jokes about marriage counselors, institutes for sexual behavior and breasts. Norman
...enough by now to know about making major moments out of minor incidents. There is at least one such here. Split with his girl friend, his wife and sons away on unannounced holiday, Nicholas shacks up with his co-star in a new play. As she prattles on in bed, telling endless postcoital anecdotes about her grandmother, Mastroianni stares straight ahead, bereft, bored, glazed, luckless, irked, satisfied but uncompelled, paying dearly now for his pleasure. It is a scene Mastroianni manages with the kind of comic melancholy that comes from depths too seldom sounded...
...more promising technique captures the sulfur as the coal is burning in a special furnace. Developed by Michael Pope, a New York consulting engineer, this "fluidized bed combustion" system will soon be tested by the federal Energy Research and Development Administration at a power plant in Rivesville, W. Va. Early experiments show that the new furnace not only causes coal to burn more efficiently, but also actually converts the sulfur into a useful soil enrichener...
...picture in the crystal ball, although not splendid, indicates that warm temperatures will persist for a while. Look for increasing cloudiness tomorrow, and possibly showers tomorrow night. And take those extra blankets off your bed--the thermostat should hold steady above 50 degrees...