Word: nylons
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...strides into the state-of-the-art kitchen, equipped with ovens to serve any baking need. But rather than whip up a batch of gooey homemade chocolate-chip cookies, she brazenly hurls her brassiere into the oven. The kitchen smells not of delightful baked goods, but of burning nylon...
...AHEAD, TOUCH IT The Vornado Zippi desktop fan ($20) is ideal for a small office or even a child's bedroom. The blades are soft nylon flaps, so even at top speed, they won't hurt your hand. The fan is also available in green or yellow...
...synch with everything else. In Milan, that designer is usually Miuccia Prada. After several seasons of staying on the groomed slopes, she likes to veer off piste. This season Prada showed a collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversize nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes had fur on the platform heels...
...synch with everything else. In Milan, that designer is usually Miuccia Prada. After several seasons of staying on the groomed slopes, she likes to veer off piste. This season, Prada showed a collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversized nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes had fur on the platform heels...
Another problem has been the tarnished image of science itself. Catchphrases that felt inspiring in the 1950s--"Better living through chemistry," "Atoms for peace"--have a darker connotation today. Du Pont, which invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context...