Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. It was the most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy in his familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started...
...seeing around Harvard Square, one of those hypersensitive geniuses who, instead of becoming Einsteins, had slipped the other way, taking one too many acid trips back in 1965, and wandering around the Square ever since, babbling stray mathematical formulae on the street corners. Maybe it would even be Dryer Man, the guy with the electric hair who likes to sit on those big industrial dryers in the laundromat and get off on the vibes...
Beneath that obdurate, aluminum exterior beat two 12-volt automobile batteries, 15 electric motors, 35 relays and hundreds of solid-state integrated circuits. Arok has a motorcycle helmet for a skull, a rubber Frankenstein mask for a face, clothes-dryer exhaust hoses for arms, rubber gloves for hands and a firm, manly handshake. He is remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin...
...most small appliances and have begun washing dishes by hand instead of using the machine." Another student, Eric Lamoe, 14, says that, at his urging, his family has weather-stripped the doors and changed many light bulbs to 25 watts. Adds Eric: "I don't use my hair dryer any more, and neither does my brother or my mom. It adds up to quite...
...Daly would be nowhere without his blow dryer...