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...racing is the game, there is the water-bomb Aquakart, a modified fiberglass hydroplane capable of 35 m.p.h. to 50 m.p.h., weighing only 125 Ibs. and available for $745 at Hammacher Schlemmer...
...simplest outdoor grills ever devised is offered by Hammacher Schlemmer for a mere $7.95. Folded it looks like a collapsed knapsack, and unfolded like a square wastebasket with a metal rack perched on top. It cooks a steak in six minutes and uses the most plentiful fuel in the land - old news papers, four sheets to a sirloin...
...paintings of Oscar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer, Paul Klee, and others also reflect this mechanical trend, but it reaches perhaps its greatest extreme in the works of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy who completely eliminates the objective elements from his painting, retaining only geometric abstractions. Unlike most current abstract-expressionists, Moholy-Nagy shows a great amount of skill in juggling forms and colors to achieve a very definite (and intended) effect. In his "Composition A-18," the clever placing of several dotted lines directs a jumble of planes to recede from the viewer into a large white circle, and the whole melange tumbles...
...Electronic computer for the duffer who practices with plastic golf balls in his living room, sold by Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer. The machine figures out how far each drive would have traveled on the links, whether it was hooked, sliced, or straight down the fairway. Price...
...gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging pajamas ($79.95) and gold-plated toothbrushes ($5). "Anything with a gimmick sells very well," said Dominic Tampone, president of Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer: "This always happens in a high economy. You give a person something he wouldn't normally buy for himself...