Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory that a chair should be sold for its anatomical comfort, Hautefeuille devised a callipygous montage. He commissioned some 2,000 'photographs of bare buttocks, those of his employees, their children and friends. "We cropped the pictures right down to the buttocks itself," says the adman. "It was more abstract-not obscene, not vulgar, not ugly." The resulting two-page layout of 50 men's, women's and children's bottoms became the talk of Europe. After its publication in major French, German and Belgian magazines, delighted readers pinned the ad to office walls all over...
...elders. A measure of their confusion is the advice on handling students contained in a manual circulated among the faculty of Tokyo's Chuo University. They should be treated "as foreigners," the handbook ad vises, "with all their different sets of modes, customs and thoughts." Still, older Japanese take comfort from the fact that so far most of the young ka-minari (thunderbolts) have dutifully taken "their proper place" in the ser vice of company and country after graduation. A few businessmen are in fact trying to recruit campus activists, valuing their "volatile and creative minds...
...probably right. Americium emits almost exclusively alpha particles, the nuclei of helium atoms produced by the isotope's slow decay into lighter elements. The alpha particles are so weak that they remain confined inside the victim's body. While contagion is virtually impossible, this is only slight comfort to the victims. As americium spreads through the body, it may linger in such areas as the liver, spleen and lymph system and eventually settle into the marrow of the bones. According to Pittsburgh Radiologist Niel Wald, a leading radiation specialist, the effect over a year-long period is roughly...
...film makers stay eight miles from location in the mining town of Roros, in a hotel that has a sort of elementary ski-lodge comfort. But Roros (pop. 3,200) offers lamentably few distractions-and even they are not particularly accessible. "If her father answers," a young actor explains to the hotel operator, "he doesn't speak any English, so would you please ask him if she's in?" The cast passes the time devising new ways of getting six or eight layers of clothing beneath the tattered costumes for the next day's shooting. The Times...
...vast majority of the class of '73 shied away from the political poles. Alumni looking for a resurgence of conservatism can take some comfort in what appears to be a hard core of conservative freshmen, numbering approximately five per cent of the class...