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...Pressure Cooker. True enough, a lithography studio like Tamarind does resemble an industrial plant-it is full of polished stones, pots of ink, presses, reams of handmade paper. The artist's task, in the simplest form of lithography, is to draw his work on flat stone with a greasy crayon. A printer-artisan wets the stone with water, which the grease rejects, and then rolls on ink, which the grease accepts. When the artisan presses paper to the stone, the ink prints the work of art, and the process can be repeated as many times as the artist requires...
Named for the Hollywood street it faces, Tamarind is a complex of white-stucco-walled buildings where the lights generally burn late seven nights a week. "This place is a kind of a pressure cooker," says Director Wayne, 46. "If you don't have a lot of time to fool around, dammit, you don't fool around." The time ends in 1965, when the Ford subsidies stop and Tamarind will have to try to carry on by itself...
...granted, but a real consumer boom is a relatively new phenomenon in many parts of the world. What were once luxuries are becoming necessities in many places, motivating the Italian family to upgrade its motor scooter to an auto and the Japanese housewife to want an automatic rice cooker. This same desire drives Congolese men to insist on neatly starched white shirts and Venezuelans to save for a vacation at the seashore. Last year consumers almost everywhere had a bit more to spend, and provided the major push to their economies by spending it for a better life. Their spending...
...piano had a standard keyboard−but it sounded like a muted xylophone. There was a zitherlike instrument that resembled an outdoor barbecue cooker. An unrecognizable assemblage of crystal rods, stroked by musicians with moistened fingers, emitted resonant whoops that fluttered through attached whiskers of piano wire. At San Francisco's Conservatory of Music last week, an audience of 150 was captivated by the sounds−and sight−of some of the newest and weirdest musical instruments on earth...
Sold under the brand name "National" (except in the U.S., where, because of a trademark conflict, they carry the name "Panasonic"), Matsushita's products have done much to change Japanese life. His rice cooker, which automatically turns out a perfect batch of rice every time, has freed Japanese women from the need to get up an hour earlier than their husbands - and from the terrible mother-in-law's verdict, "She can't even cook rice," which once was enough to send a Japanese bride back to her parents in disgrace. Matsushita's vacuum-cleaner...