Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, the river has divided into a stagnant upper layer of fresh water and a deoxygenated lower layer of salt water. The sewage which is drained into the Charles falls to the bottom, where it decomposes. Since there is not enough oxygen, this decomposition produces hydrogen sulfide, which gives off the now-familiar smell or rotten eggs...
...come he quit on an hour's notice? My cook would give me more notice than that! He was a pressagent! I'd like to ask him what he did for the President during the Cuban missile crisis. Did he hold his coat? Did he get a fresh supply of paper clips...
...where] in the hottest hours of the day there is no water for a shower and the electricity comes and goes as if monkeys were playing with the switches." Wrote another: "I am haunted by ghosts of corruption, high prices, high rents, adulteration in everything. There's no fresh bread to eat, no safe water to drink, no sugar to remove the unsavory taste from my mouth. The whole city is floating in a sea of sewage...
...music, the answer was "always and only Venice." But it is a painter's city. Lodged between water and sky, the seaport that calls itself Serenissima is an unending symphony of light. Its sun-mellowed stones and shimmering canals, its façades etched in chiaroscuro against sea-fresh skies, its wide horizons and weirdly shifting perspectives have challenged and eluded more artists than any other city in the world. Of all the painters who have attempted to capture the visual music of Venice-and some of the greatest have been Venetians-none was better attuned than Giovanni Antonio...
...flip-tops that will remain on the can after it is opened, thus avoid cutting feet when tops are tossed carelessly on floors or beaches. Recently U.S. companies adopted the Swedish idea of covering vacuum-pack coffee cans with plastic lids that can be used to keep the product fresh. Some companies have already taken the next obvious step: putting advertising stress on the containers instead of on the product, as Chase & Sanborn does with its decorated coffee canisters...