Word: formica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled kitchen with built-in rotisserie. Upstairs are another living room and eight bedrooms-including a 900-sq.-ft. master bedroom with twin dressing rooms. The place came furnished...
Amid the stainless steel, leatherette and Formica of coffee shops in Manhattan's Radio City, balding businessmen and their wives from Wichita or Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where...
...clock, De Sapio had begun the workday that would last for 18 hours (seven days a week). His wavy black hair, streaked at the temples with silver, was meticulously combed. The talcum was in place. He wore the tinted glasses that are his trademark. He sat at a grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father...
...witnesses to a will," said Don Eloy Montero, "even if they have a reputation of being somewhat talkative . . ." Warned a Catholic priest: "Beware of the many ways of heresy . . . Woman must be, in the words of the Apostles, 'subject to her husband.' " But all in all, Senora Formica felt encouraged...
...delights brought by the knowledge of good and evil. Women's rights is an unpopular theme, especially among mediocre men . . . When we ask for freedom, they call us unfeminine. My God, no. We are so feminine that we are fighting for the survival of our own sex." Seora Formica, elegantly gowned and coiffured, flashed a warm smile. "If we were still in the harems, I'd be the first to enjoy a life of leisure midst the flowers and birds. In fact, I'd make all efforts to be the favorite...