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...opera had all the makings of a flop. The set designer had never designed a set before. The male lead had never sung outside the shower. The conductor could not see the singers onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Grimm for Grownups | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...steps into a stall shower and gets ready to sing. What comes jetting down upon him, however, is not water but streams of deadly gas. He tries to turn it off. Impossible. He tries the door. It is locked and batterproof. It appears that he will surely die. But he quickly wraps a shaving-cream bomb in a towel, wedges it against the door, sprinkles it with after-shave lotion, and touches the flame of a cigarette lighter to this ingenious subnuclear device. The blazing lotion heats the shaving cream until it explodes volcanically, and Napoleon Solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Man Inside the Man from U.N.C.LE. | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

CHARLIE: I often wonder if maybe they didn't have the right idea back when we were undergraduates--men only. Isn't that old Barrington-Smythe coming out of the shower? They say he hasn't given Harvard a cent since they started electing female class marshals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1984 | 1/18/1965 | See Source »

...bureau puts 7,500 products per year (including all of Macy's own brands) through tests of fire, water, high pressure and simulated wear. Recently the testers ordered Macy's advertising department not to call a raincoat "water-resistant" because it failed to withstand a heavy shower for 21 minutes, and not to call a plastic Christmas tree "fireproof," because it melted when exposed to flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Great Shopping Spree | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

Ironically, this student's room seems to have been struck by a potential thief at least once before. A roommate reported yesterday that several weeks ago, a youth had mistakenly come into the bathroom while the roommate was taking a shower. Obviously a bit shaken, the youth asked "Can you tell me where Ken--'s room is?" And then, he too field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Plundered By Petty Thieves | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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