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...about 435 representatives from nearly 90 colleges, at which the reportedly first straight safe-sex educational film, Norma and Tony, was shown. It indicated that there is much progress to be made in this new field. For 30 minutes, Norma and Tony painstakingly covered themselves with spermicides, condoms and latex squares before engaging in intercourse. The film was so cautiously clinical that a group of viewers quickly lost interest in Norma and Tony, and even in sex for that matter, focusing instead on the number and variety of odd-textured and -shaped devices employed...
Adams resident Alvar J. Mattei '88 said the initial plans for the room were elaborate. "The committee was going to take base furniture, and cover it with latex so that the furniture would look like it had been covered with molten lava," he said...
Such are the stars of Spitting Image, the British television program in which some 400 latex and foam-rubber puppets reduce the antics of the powerful to a mess of funny faces, pratfalls and spasmodic jerks. Breaking satirical ground and television rules with equal relish, the weekly show regularly strings along almost one in every four British men, women and children...
Cleverly crafted out of latex and foam rubber, the cast of caricatures ranges from Ronald and Nancy Reagan to Barbra Streisand, from William ("the Refrigerator") Perry to Charles Bronson, from Walter Cronkite to David Frost. Oops, Frost is actually the only real person featured on a special version of Spitting Image, the weekly satirical show of puppets and circumstances that is one of Britain's most talked-about TV programs. The two-year-old series is either adored or abhorred for such presentations as a Christmastime satire of the royal family regally addled by holiday cheer. Last week work...
DIED. Abram N. Spanel, 83, founder in 1932 and chairman from 1949 to 1975 of the International Latex (now Playtex) Corp., the bra and girdle maker, who was also a notable philanthropist, mostly to medical research, and a gifted inventor who held more than 2,000 patents; of congestive heart failure; in Princeton, N.J. Born in Russia and reared in Paris until at ten he moved to the U.S., Spanel was probably best known to the public for his habit of regularly buying newspaper space, at a cost of millions over four decades, to promote his beliefs, notably world unity...