Word: foams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still hard work. When you pack your sleeping bag, foam mattress, tent, change of clothes, food and utensils, you end up carrying 40 lbs. or more. Lugging that load 15 miles a day in rough country is a guaranteed antidote to the dangers of the soft city life...
...lookout for bad odors when they began sampling Skylab's delicacies, which include such items as roast beef, lobster Newburg and Conrad's favorite butterscotch pudding. The space agency was also worried about the buildup of potentially lethal fumes from the decomposition of the heat-sensitive polyurethane foam used to insulate the interior walls of the ship. As an added precaution, the astronauts planned to don gas masks before entering the ship...
Another California artist who sees cars as art is Tom Sewell. Sewell's "Picklecar" looks like a cross between a giant cucumber and a stray automobile. Actually "The Picklecar" is a 1950 Studebaker that has been sprayed with polyurethane foam, and painted a loud and ugly shade of green. "The Picklecar" is bizarre to the point of being offensive, and indeed, the Los Angeles Police impounded the car after someone complained about it being parked in front of their house...
...snow thawed they had to be reburied over and over again. Group members became obsessed with locating their luggage and spent days and weeks probing for suitcases in waist-high snow. They snapped pictures of their predicament. Chunks of aluminum were fashioned into snowshoes; the plane's foam insulation was worked into sleeping bags. Snow was melted into drinking water on the sun-warmed fuselage; pieces of Alka-Seltzer were added to reduce cravings for salt. Talk increasingly centered on food and on great meals they had eaten. One day rummaging for usable debris the bearded survivors stumbled across...
...said that the vote on the first motion--to ask the University's permission to sell condoms in the Union--was about two-to-one against, with five directors abstaining. Cervilla noted that the vending machines will not contain vaginal foam...