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Such extreme styles may never attract more than a very special audience. Ever since the demise of the grey flannel suit in the early 1950s, a revolution in menswear has been forecast as regularly as the lifetime light bulb or a new Nixon. Until lately, men's fashion changes have added up to little more than slimmer trousers, side vents, a return of the shaped, double-breasted suit, and frilled shirts-worn mainly by actors. Lately, however, there have been signs of a real change in attitude...
...Piano Player. At the time, Benton and Newman were house satirists at Esquire, writing sophomoric advice to college boys like how to fake mononucleosis. The Dillinger Days, a book about crime in the '30s, crossed their desk. The way they like to tell it, a figurative light bulb appeared over their heads when they came to the section on Clyde Barrow...
...Almost 80% of U.S. families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff's tube...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side is typical of the area. Decaying plaster and peeling paint festoon its dark blue hall ways, and a flight of creaky wood stairs leads down to an oppressively low-ceilinged cellar that reeks of dog droppings and rancid garbage. A single naked light bulb illuminates the grimy heating pipes, the cockroach-scampered walls, and piles of loose, whitewashed firebricks from the building's boiler. It hardly seems the place for a tryst, yet into that foul tomb last week walked a pair of hippie "love children" intent on the pursuit of passion. Instead...
...grain stacked in his barns? Seventeenth century Holland experienced one of the first of the futures markets. Dutchmen became so infatuated with tulips from Asia Minor that they stopped planting and began trading them. Prices rose to the point where one merchant paid $1,400 for a Semper Augustus bulb, which was eaten by an employee who mistook it for an onion...