Word: mattresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very much a functionalist. "If my technique, imagination and vision are any good," he once observed, "I ought to be able to put the best values of my noncommercial and experimental photography into a pair of shoes, a tube of toothpaste, a jar of face cream, a mattress or any object I want to light up and make humanly interesting in an advertising photograph...
...dorm at the University of Maryland recently, boys poured out of girls' rooms in droves when a fire alarm sounded in the middle of the night. At Bryn Mawr, one student explains: "When a boy and girl have been going together for a while, one of them drags his mattress into the other's room." A new kind of study problem has recently been brought to a college psychiatrist: what to do if your roommate's girl friend parades around your room nude. Ask her to get dressed? Or go elsewhere to study...
...stage, and the Garden has begun to settle into a pre-show mood. We learn that the crew is staying in the Madison. "Yeah, we had a lousy hotel in Montreal too," and that the way to get back at these hotels is to cut a slit in the mattress, take a shit into the slit, and leave. One of the crew had only been home two weeks in a year of touring--he was talking about "backpacking in Nova Scotia," after this tour was over...
...south block of San Quentin prison, once the largest cell block in the world, now houses only a few dozen sparrows. The prison's clothing factory has shut down, and so has the mattress plant. San Quentin today contains only 1,500 convicts, as compared with 6,000 ten years ago; by 1975 the century-old fortress will be closed forever...
...Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret. I Am a Camera, the nonmusical version of Cabaret, starred Julie Harris who had already qualified in The Member of the Wedding as the quintessential American waif. Carol Burnett gawked and geeked her way onstage in Once Upon a Mattress and went on to become one of TV's clowning glories. Gwen Verdon was the gamine waif of both Redhead and Sweet Charity, and Audrey Hepburn was a winsome waifling as Gigi...