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...also made many onetime luxuries commonplace. Sales of ice crushers and combination electric knife sharpener-can openers are rising steadily; New York's Norjac Co. has done so well with its electric bread and plate warmers that it has just introduced a $12.95 electric sweater dryer. Dominion has brought out a manicure set and Osrow a refrigerator defroster. The housewife can also get small appliances to buff floors, mash potatoes, peel carrots, and warm her towels. The greatest successes have been the electric toothbrushes and slicing knives. Like many other of the new appliances, the toothbrush was first dismissed...
...aluminum, and uses a side view of the jet as a background for a grab bag of contemporary images in phosphorescent Dayglo colors-a Firestone tire, an umbrella superimposed on a nuclear mushroom cloud, giant light bulbs, a beaming six-year-old under the chrome busby of a hair dryer-all executed in Rosenquist's precise realistic style...
...mixers, blenders, peelers and juicers -are equally unfamiliar to most French kitchens. Behind its slogan, "Moulinex liberates the woman," the company is increasingly selling the French housewife on le confort. Its product line is also stretching beyond the kitchen, now includes electric heaters, vacuum cleaners and a $3.50 hair dryer that is one of the world's fastest-selling models...
...house afire, almost invariably ignited by Actress Bancroft, who could probably strike dramatic lightning from a recitation of tide tables. Having tea at the zoo, she quietly distills despair while a prurient cuckold (James Mason) spews ugly revelations about her husband and his wife. Cornered under a hair dryer at a beauty salon, she blanches, feeling her own anguish cruelly parodied in a chance conversation with a venomous, cast-off drudge. And her spectacular scenes with Finch, pitched against the din of a more or less anonymous army of progeny, are a litany of love, hate, lies, jealousy and excruciating...
...sseldorf doctors are confident that infectious diseases can be reduced by getting rid of the common towel. But the hot-air dryer, they say, is far from an effective replacement; it spreads germs faster by blowing them into the air. The Dusseldorf doctors prefer either the long roll, in which each part of the towel is used only once, or individual paper towels. Either way, they urge: "One person, one towel...