Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while the wet clothes are drying, then attaches the gadget to the emptied dryer and puts her head under it. She emerges dripped and dried, but possibly wondering about the day when she herself might be folded neatly by her husband, and placed with great care in the linen closet...
Flip the Switch. In this indoor Shangri-La, parents are building themselves a home within a home, including stereo and TV sets, dressing room, extra closet space, fireplace, bar, refrigerator, and perhaps even a small kitchen. One couple does much of its entertaining in the master bedroom, which is decorated like a living room (the beds are made up like studio couches), has a separate entrance. Parental authority is maintained through a master control panel that can turn out lights all over the house and through an intercom system over which parents can give orders-and avoid being answered back...
...Wardrobe (Film Polski; Kingsley International). The camera looks out to sea. Gulls at rest, hardly a ripple. Suddenly, about 50 yards offshore, something breaks water. A fish? A submarine? No, just a wardrobe closet -large, well-made, decorated with a mirror, and carried by two dripping workingmen. Matter-of-factly, they lug the closet to the beach, jog the water out of their ears, pick the closet up again and head for the nearest city...
...cruel world. A man slaps his friend on the back with one hand, steals his wallet with the other. Four young punks stone a kitten to death and, when the wardrobe men protest, beat them up and break their mirror. When the closet-horses lie down to rest, a watchman drives them away with a stick. Heads bowed, they carry their burden back to the beach and quietly disappear into...
...Molly for nearly 20 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Marian and Jim Jordan were small-time vaudevilleans from Peoria, III., before they hit the big time at 79 Wistful Vista, radio home of the McGees, wowing audiences of up to 20 million with Fibber's cluttered closet and Molly's standard, " 'Tain't funny, McGee...