Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause was not helped by Patrick Jenkins, an energy minister, who declared that Britons should not turn on the lights when brushing their teeth since this function could easily be performed in the dark. In an inept demonstration of his point, Jenkins posed for the Daily Telegraph shaving by candlelight - using an electric razor...
Wanted Babies. London's fashion able department stores looked as seedy as portside pubs, with stark light glaring from naked bulbs powered by generators. Yet there were compensations. Mayfair's elegant shops looked even more elegant with lighted silver candelabra on their counters. The widespread use of candlelight cast a heartwarming, old-fashioned glow over the misery of it all. Recalling the baby boom after the 1965 New York blackout, officials decided at 10:30 p.m. they had best sponsor a birth control campaign. Now the last thing Londoners will hear when they turn off the telly...
...winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. -Robert Louis Stevenson...
...library (four daughters are living at home, another daughter and a son are away at school, and a second son is working on Wall Street). "I close the door and keep the fire going," she says. "We close off the living room and other rooms." Dinners are by candlelight, though father is seldom home for them. In another gesture of conspicuous non-consumption, the Simons are getting rid of the family Jeep station wagon-"a gas eater," says Carol-and will do most of their driving instead in Son William's Chevy Nova...
...visible in the evening sky, New York's Hayden Planetarium is planning an even more elaborate happening: a six-day "Flight of the Comet" aboard a chartered Boeing 747. The tour will feature stopovers at observatories in California and Arizona. There, the participants will be treated to candlelight dinners and lectures while Kohoutek glimmers in the sky. Cost: $1,750 apiece...