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...distant future, some similar system may conceivably put radioactivity to work by turning it on and off like water from a kitchen faucet, but at present the Westinghouse scientists, though delighted with their accomplishment, see no practical application. Said Dr. Lawrence M. Epstein: "The thrill was purely intellectual...
Black Sabbath is a three-part demonthology. The Drop of Water tells what happens to a nurse who steals a jewel from a corpse: she is hounded to her doom by a fiendish faucet. The Telephone tells the story of a girl who gets a phone call from a boy friend she sent to the gallows. "I want that beautiful body of yours," he murmurs lustfully, and later he comes to get it. Terrified, she stabs him to death with a kitchen knife, but an instant later the phone rings, and when she answers it the voice of the dead...
While waiting for a break in the weather, as he puts it, Davies-played with uncluttered perception by Donald Pleasence-burrows into the refuge offered by a former mental patient (Robert Shaw), the elder of two misfit brothers. Shaw collects things-bales of newspapers, a disconnected faucet, a kitchen sink, a bud vase full of screws-and he speaks and moves with the stony detachment of a man who will never again disturb the balance of his uneasy truce with life. His goal is to build a workshed out back: "Then I'll be able...
...customized" bathrooms. In fact, bathrooms are becoming a prestige item on the scales of conspicuous consumption, a place swimming pools used to hold before everybody had one. Luxury Lavatorist Sherle Wagner of Manhattan's 57th Street is selling baroque swans, dolphins, Cupids and sea horses for spouts and faucet handles as fast as he can gold-plate them, at $129.50 to $800 a set. Cut crystal is in, too, and the most sophisticated of all is pewter with gold decoration. "And, of course, marble like mad," says Wagner. "We just finished a lovely bathroom-dressing room...
...FAUCETS. With rare exceptions, bathroom faucets all used to turn one way-counterclockwise for on, clockwise off-something a man with soap in his eyes could rely on as he groped for the hot water faucet in the shower. Then the designers got the modern impulse to get symmetrical, and devised matching handles that turned in opposite directions, toward or away from each other. No one knows which way is which until he tries...