Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolutely rotten." And Simon begins to imagine all the things he would do if he were rotten. The detailed pencil drawings show him racing through a supermarket, cutting off his sister's hair and finally going to jail. The text by musical writer Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) is deadpan funny...
...commission over much better known contestants, the present pavilion is a comedown of sorts from the spectacular cluster of airborne spheres originally proposed but ruled out by a congressional budget slash. But the design is still a spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls slope as gently inward and upward as the lower slopes...
...England narcotics officials said mattress hair, dried beet greens, snuff, roots, sticks, and assorted weeds are being sold as grass...
...world. His only guide was his sense of touch. Through tubes and rubbery barricades, up and down gradients, past something that felt like an oscillating fur muff, the visitor groped his way. Just before emerging again into the light, he was engulfed, not unpleasantly, by a water-filled plastic mattress with a temperature about the same...
...Francisco Designer C. Prior Hall arrived with the water-filled mattress. He calls it the Pleasure Pit, and passed out copy advertising its virtues: "It is a friend in love with you. Beckoning you to grovel in rapturous sensual splendor" -and so on, down to the punch line: "The Pleasure Pit is like taking your bed to bed with...