Word: kits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pregnant woman anywhere in the U.S. can call Z.P.G. AID Staffer Kit Riggs gets her name, address and financial status, and can usually give preliminary advice on the phone. Then Mrs. Riggs feeds her caller's data into a shared-time computer. Within five minutes, the computer produces a printout listing the names of the eight or ten doctors and clinics nearest the caller, with their fees and other pertinent facts. Mrs. Riggs mails this printout to the caller. AID makes no charge for its service, but asks women who can afford it to send a $5 donation...
...rich St. Louis real estate developer, Vittert showed considerable ingenuity at earning money as an undergraduate. His profitable enterprises included a direct-mail campaign selling a campus "survival kit": Vittert sent letters to students' parents promoting a package of fruit, peanut butter and candy, which for $5 would be sent to their sons and daughters when they crammed for final exams. Vittert's drive for individuality also made him campus handball and pingpong champion-and a sartorial iconoclast: though he has his hair cut short and dresses in pin-stripe gray suits, he almost never wears socks...
...dome with 1,100 sq. ft. of living space for $4,900 (erected). Doors, windows, heating and foundation all add to the cost. Cadco's rule-of-thumb estimate of total cost is about $9.50 per square foot. Dynadome, of Phoenix, Ariz., sells its 40-foot dome in kit form...
Despite such doubts, domes are mushrooming in a dizzying array of skins-from the wood and metal favored by kit manufacturers to brick, stone, cement and plastic. Kahn has experimented with domes of plywood walls insulated with nitrogen-filled vinyl pillows, aluminum frames covered with Plexiglas, and wood covered with burlap then sprayed with quick-hardening plastic foam. Perhaps the most interesting new project is one involving the use of Mylar plastic film coated so that one side reflects light while the other is transparent. Outsiders thus see only an opaque dome, but those inside have an unobstructed view...
...enough to the whole structure of the film to talk about. So: skip the rest of this paragraph if you've never forgiven Fred for telling you that the butler did do it.] The film ends, fades to black, and credits appear: David Holzman is played by L. M. Kit Carson; the filmmaker is Jim McBride. What we thought was documentary was the cruelest of lies, for even here screenplay has been passed off as cinema verite . Suddenly, in a numbing Borgesian inversion, the movie turns around on itself. We had come to a final knowledge-filmed life...