Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire apparently started when a cigarette left on a stuffed chair in room G-41 set the upholstery ablaze at about 9:15 p.m. No one was in the room at the time, and the fire spread to a foam-rubber mattress a few feet away...
...same principle. But like its predecessors, the Weinstein-Davidson product weighed in at an impractical, beam-breaking 3,000 Ibs. The doctors did not give up, though, and lightweight improvements on their design, manufactured by the Scott Paper Co., now fit standard hospital beds. The hollowed-out, foam-rubber mattresses have inserted plastic sacs that fit patients like a cloud and allow their weight to be distributed so uniformly over the supporting surface that they would not even break eggs...
...onetime whaling port, a fake whale was seen floating in the harbor; 15 pretty nurses lay down on three hospital beds set smack in the middle of the highway. But nothing matched the pandemonium on Montauk's bluffs. There the Montauk Fire Department's hoses and two foam makers were turned loose, sending gallons upon gallons of fire-fighting foam billowing down the cliffs. Joined by hardened surfers, who left their boards to join in the fun, Kaprow, like Moses, led his tribes of happy Happeners across the foamy...
...dignity, a kind of apprehension in their approach," one spectator noted. "Yeh, sort of like a pilgrimage," another added. But soon the whole beach crowd was jumping into the cascade of suds, which came up to their knees, thighs, armpits. One plump sculptress plunked herself down, let the foam flow over her. Explained a Happener: "I'm exposing the five senses to a completely irrational environment." The suds were harmless, and they sent Kaprow into raptures. Said he: "It was like tons and tons of danger kissing you like a powder puff...
Once the fun was discovered, no one could have enough. The next day the foam-making apparatus was driven over to the town dump near Springs, another artists' outpost, where the suds spewed forth once again so that all the children could have a good wallow. "The silliest thing I ever saw," exclaimed one horrified mother. But not all agreed. "A blast-out of sight. I wish it could happen every day," said one teenager. It probably won't. The tab for the three-day Happening, with the cost of filming, was nearly $30,000-a fairly inflationary...