Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instant Tomatoes. All this does not mean that Americans are no longer enthralled by gadgets and gimmickry. More than 20,000 Rotocrop "Accelerator" compost bins were sold last year at about $40 each, and sales are expected to more than double this year. The bin is merely a 3-ft.-high plastic cylinder, specially ventilated for turning garden and kitchen wastes quickly into compost. Students at the University of Miami enjoy almost instant tomatoes hydroponically grown by pouring liquid fertilizer into baskets filled with wood shavings outside their dorm windows. "Tomato rings"-wire-mesh cages about 4 ft. wide...
...Wall Street, Polaroid's stock rose a few points but Kodak's dipped, a classic case of buying on the rumor and selling on the news. Analysts expect the new instant line to add only a few percentage points to Kodak's profits, which come from chemicals and textiles as well as photography. Many analysts were a shade disappointed in the new cameras. They had expected something dramatically different from the company that developed the first successful color film for amateurs (Kodachrome, in 1935) and has sold 75 million Instamatics since the introduction of that phenomenally successful...
Plywood Brownie. Kodak is not worried that its instant cameras will eat into Instamatic sales. About the size of a tape recorder and weighing 29 oz., the EK6 is seen by analysts as best used for indoor pictures and backyard snapshots. Said one: "It's great, but you can't take it skiing." Nonetheless, a Kodak marketing survey concluded that 24 million U.S. families would be interested in buying an instant camera of the kind that Kodak has now introduced if the price is right (about...
...house they desire and conditions of crowding. Gone would be freshmen's complaints about being stuck at Radcliffe--everyone there would be there by choice. Gone would be complaints by students that their houses are too crowded--anyone could choose a less crowded house instead. The cost of the instant scoreboard and the twelve-button consoles on 500 seats in Science Center B could be easily met out of the fund paying for Bruce Collier's salary. Michael Segal '76 Steven Kariya '76 Clark Pellett '76 Tent No. 1, Mather Courtyard
...human body is one of comedy's supple tools. In agility, it releases tonic exuberance. As an object of humiliation through banana-peel pratfalls or pies in the face, it evokes instant delight. Even distortions or grotesqueries of the body-obesity, dwarfishness, eccentric gaits, tics, stutters, deafness and drunken staggers-have all been known to provoke a startling comic catharsis in playgoers...