Word: do-it-yourself
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...PROLIFERATION. Antinuclear forces charge that the spread of nuclear plants will accelerate the proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly in unstable nations. Opponents are even more concerned that the introduction of breeder reactors, which produce more plutonium than they consume, could make it easier for terrorists to steal fissionable materials for do-it-yourself bombs. Finally, they charge that safeguarding nuclear materials would require the creation of a police state that would also mean the end of civil liberties...
JUDY GARLAND would have understood; so would Mickey Rooney. In the warm Weather, after all, a college person's fancy turns to thoughts of do-it-yourself--that's why we had all those nauseating college films of the late '30s. "My dad's got a barn," Mickey would volunteer, and My Mom's got a sewing machine for making costumes," Judy would chime in, and before the audience had time to groan at the sheer corniness of it all, they would have A SHOW. Well, it's 40 years later now and the lure of Ziegfeld has given...
DIVORCE. The days when an attorney could charge $400 to $1,000 for an uncontested marital split, where the major work was less than an hour's typing by a secretary, is gradually ending with the advent of advertising, legal clinics and do-it-yourself divorces. But plenty of opportunity for abuse remains. In major cities especially, matrimonial "bombers" so vigorously represent their clients' interests that once friendly marriage partners become bitter enemies fighting a protracted court battle. The fee is suitably high...
AEROBICS, assertiveness training, behavior modification, body language, biofeedback, creative divorce, do-it-yourself psychotherapy, dream analysis, egospeak, est, esp, high-fiber diets, homeotherapy, i ching, isometrics, macrobiotics, mega-vitamins, metatalk, numerology, open marriage, parenting, psychodrama, reality training, psychocybernetics, sense relation, silva mine control, tantric sex, transactional analysis...
...Doolittle of do-it-yourself is a 35-year-old New Yorker named Spiros Zakas. A highly successful commercial designer and author who recently revamped Chicago's venerable Pump Room, Zakas also teaches at Manhattan's famed Parsons School of Design (wherefrom, nearly 50 years ago, issued the Parsons table). Zakas' book, Furniture in 24 Hours (Macmillan; $10.95), a collection of his own designs and those of his most inventive pupils, has gone through six printings in little over a year. Its 128 pages are a potpourri of practical pieces that range from ad hoc aphrodisiac...