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Word: foams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter. Richard Castellano is superbly sad and funny as a long-wed father contemplating the wreck of his son's marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...other wires or walked on by workers or the astronauts themselves. In addition, the more than 1,000 lbs. of nonmetallic materials aboard Apollo (grease, wire insulation, spacesuits, etc.) have been checked for flammability and replaced if they failed to meet NASA's new fireproofing standards. Flammable plastic-foam pads and nylon in the astronauts' spacesuits and seat belts have been replaced by Fiberglas "Beta cloth," which is heavier and more bulky but also more fire resistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Chance to Be First | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors and designed a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch. After ten years, Duchamp's energetic nihilism reached its logical conclusion-he retired from painting. But by then his rejection of everything that had gone before had paved the way for surrealism, op, pop and kinetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...Broadway LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex, and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 4, 1968 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...food out of a tube, cells in the most highly developed part of the brain (the cortex) produced a special kind of RNA as well as proteins. A similar thing happened in goldfish that were forced to learn a new kind of swimming by having buoyant plastic foam stuck under their chins by Dr. Victor Shashoua of M.I.T. Fish that Dr. Shashoua made work just as hard swimming against a current, but without learning anything new, did not produce extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: The Chemistry of Learning | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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