Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flip-up magnifying spectacles, called BeautyLooks, that enable women to see better what they are doing when they put on their makeup. The magnifiers are set away from the face so that a woman can easily apply eye makeup or pluck her eyebrows behind them, whereas ordinary glasses would interfere. Price...
...Flip the Switch. In this indoor Shangri-La, parents are building themselves a home within a home, including stereo and TV sets, dressing room, extra closet space, fireplace, bar, refrigerator, and perhaps even a small kitchen. One couple does much of its entertaining in the master bedroom, which is decorated like a living room (the beds are made up like studio couches), has a separate entrance. Parental authority is maintained through a master control panel that can turn out lights all over the house and through an intercom system over which parents can give orders-and avoid being answered back...
...remaining stoires, two are especially impressive, Jack Ludwig's "Thoreau in California" and Arthur Miller's "I Don't Need You Any More." Ludwig's effort falls a little short because of the difficulty of his endeavor. Consistently amusing without being flip or irrelevant, he introduces an extremely improbable character who worships and lives by the words of an extremely Improbable pair of writers, Thoreau and Wilhelm Reich. But to make music of proper names requires a talent approximating Joyce's, and while Ludwig has done well enough indeed, the strictures of conventional sentence give much of his prose...
...Kennedy asked his military chiefs: "Who runs this area for us?" Days later, the U.S.'s Pacific commander, Admiral Harry Felt, flew in from Pearl Harbor by presidential request, accompanied by two high-ranking U.S. military advisers to the Laotians. "Mr. President," said Felt, pointing to pock-marked flip maps, "the rebels are spreading just like measles." Supplied by Soviet airdrops averaging 45 tons daily, guided and cadred by the leathery Communist North Vietnamese, the rebels were rapidly escalating upward from a guerrilla band to a well-equipped, highly purposeful army. At the end of the two-hour meeting...
...craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over the shoulder. Karate is now taught in more than 50 schools across the U.S., has an estimated 50,000 practitioners. But nowhere has it caught on more solidly than in Hollywood, where disciples seek tranquillity in its rigid discipline and authority...