Word: foams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prototype is enlarged. And hip tykes shoud groove on a set of rope swings whose poma-lift type seats look like giant hot pink and dark purple onions. Should they fall, they won't have to hit hard macadam-Project '70 shows four-foot wide flooring dises of foam covered with black vinyl...
...Death on Foam. The basic strategy in wet-suit design is not to keep water out but to let just enough in to absorb body heat and circulate it. To achieve that end, manufacturers used a specially treated synthetic rubber called foam neoprene (containing tiny bubbles of trapped gas for better insulation) that allowed the proper slow seepage of water. But the early wet suits looked as awful as dry suits, only wetter. And they were black. Dye, it turned out, was death on foam neoprene; any injection of color considerably weakened the rubber. So did regular exposure...
Perhaps it is the rigor of being a Princeton athletic hero that has transformed Robby into a Tiger version of The Incredible Foam Man. He wouldn't be the first one. Hobey Baker had to join the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I to find some adventure after Princeton football. And after a couple of years as All-Ivy tailback, Cosmo Iacavazzi had to join the New York Jets' taxi squad to find meaning in life...
...into a tightly closed door. Every Saturday between 2 and 4:30 p.m. the breast projects from a hole in the top amongst the painted wooden models of an orange, an ashtray and a bottle of perfume-all in scale. The rest of the girl is lying on a foam-rubber-covered scaffolding, safely out of sight and usually reading a book for her graduate studies in political science at Columbia University...
...wave that had come in before. But now another one, which it seems to us must have begun miles and miles out to sea, is cresting, curling over on itself as if in slow motion, and we watch it transfixed. And then a crash and it is angry white foam racing...