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Word: bidets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months of war, oil lamps had been supplanted by the light bulb, the gourd by the bidet, pineapple juice by Coca Cola, lotto by roulette, Rocambole by Pearl White, the messenger boy's donkey by the telegraphist's bicycle...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: Toucans and Hurricanes | 5/26/1976 | See Source »

...rinsed, massaged with rubber balls and finally dried with heat lamps. A big step toward civilized johnmanship is the "AD 2000 Comfort Control Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet, it provides a tilting, vibrating back, reading light, ashtray, radio, TV, tuner and bidet attachment. To bring the bathroom back into the family-and vice versa-a West German firm has designed a Wohnbad, or living bath, to be shared by all. It boasts chairs, rugs, paintings, sun lamps and hair dryers, TV, bookshelves, sauna, telephone, refrigerator, bar and coffee maker. It does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bathrooms for Living | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...well-stocked refrigerator, flowers in the vases and, as ordered, his clothes cleaned and laid out. The staff will always be on hand to charter limousines, yachts, helicopters and jets, snap up tickets to the theater, opera and concert. In residence, madame in her marble bathroom (with porcelain bidet) will never be embarrassed by window-cleaning voyeurs: the floor-to-ceiling solar-glass windows are washed by peekless mechanical equipment. Ari's aerie is located on the razed site of the old beloved Best & Co. store, where generations of middle-class New Yorkers trudged to outfit their children before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The New Olympians | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Junoesque woman who stands 6 ft. 1 in., Madame Honoria enjoys such baubles as a white Mercedes, an open palanquin in which she is carried by her subjects, a golden mace presented to her chieftaincy by Queen Victoria, and an elaborate bathroom in which everything from bidet to bath salts is pink. She is accompanied on her official rounds by an official elephant-horn player, who blows great blasts to announce her arrival and departure. She conducts her tribal court with dispatch and dignity. At a recent session, she quickly settled the case of a man who was accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: African Women: From Old Magic To New Power | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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