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...water. But the early wet suits looked as awful as dry suits, only wetter. And they were black. Dye, it turned out, was death on foam neoprene; any injection of color considerably weakened the rubber. So did regular exposure to air. Finally the solution was found: a protective nylon knit fabric that would adhere to the neoprene and keep it durable whatever the color or weather...
...dead movie star, lolanthe, whom he once loved. Due to circumstances that occurred in another time and another place, Julian is a eunuch, empty of everything but the desire for desire-what Durrell calls "the enormous cupidity of impotence." Once constructed, lolanthe II defeats him. With her warm nylon skin and electronic memory-bank brain, she behaves more humanly than he does, thinks more briskly than he can. In the end, eunuch and robot, in mutual exasperation, fall to their death in each other's embrace, like lovers in an old-fashioned melodrama...
...spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead of the fancy Teflon bags that hooked to their sides) and even a nylon whisk broom to brush off the clinging lunar dust...
Surrounded by such specimens, you stand nude for the weigh-in ceremonies and realize what a wreck you are. Then out of the gymnasium waddles some titan of industry looking like a grapefruit in his gold stretch-nylon sweatsuit. "Hi, tiger!" says Spa Director Ward Hutton. "You've got a good sweat going!" Wearily looking up, the titan mutters, "Hello, muscles." Suddenly you don't feel embarrassed any more...
...Moskowitz, head of sales, "It's like a fairy tale." To assure a happy ending, Mr. Moskowitz warns customers of the few snarls involved: "Don't wear the wig when you are looking at a roast, excessive heat makes it frizz. Don't use a nylon brush, it causes static. Don't comb and brush when wet, the set can come out." Otherwise, he beams, "just wear, and enjoy...