Word: dryer
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Wire eyeglass sidepieces that pop back to their pristine form when dipped in hot water. Brassieres that "remember" their original shape while tumbling in the clothes dryer. Both innovations are by-products of a special metal alloy with so-called shape memory, developed nearly 25 years ago by the U.S. military and now reaching consumers...
...about $30. The new product avoids a difficulty common to many regular wire bras, which can become twisted and more rigid after each washing. What next for the wonder metal? Says a manufacturer of the alloy: "A dented automobile fender that could be returned to new with a blow dryer sounds great, but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce...
...night before she kills herself. As the sun sets over a small, lower-middle-class ranch house in rural America, Jessie (Sissy Spacek) gives her full attention to the monotonous, ennerving tasks of refilling the candy dishes in the living room, taking the clean towels out of the clothes dryer, cancelling the daily paper, setting the electric light timer...
...Republican Don Nickles, has discovered that less can be more. In his TV spots, the balding Jones tells voters, "I'll have more time each day to work on Oklahoma's problems because I won't need one of these." Grinning broadly, he raises a whirring -- and superfluous -- hair dryer to his head. The implication? That Nickles, thickly thatched and Hollywood handsome, is just another pretty face...
Bill Gardner, 38, president of a Milwaukee electrical-supplies firm, bought a car for $45,000 in 1984, then spent $450,000 fitting it out with a telephone, a washer and dryer, two teak-finished bathrooms, a living room done in walnut and brass, and a Lenox china service for twelve. Business entertainment is given as one reason for these wonders. Playing with trains is the fuller explanation. If you are going to play, however, why not do things in a big way? In 1973 Entrepreneur Roy Thorpe, 50, from Fort Lauderdale, was talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion...