Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pool-sitter" lifeguards ($1.25 an hour), and electronic monitors that ring bells when trespassers plunge or fall in. Since a pool cover is probably the best idea, builders now offer a pushbutton elevator that rises out of the pool bottom until it decks over the pool as a play slab for parties. Unhappily, the gadget costs at least $1,500. Happily. $150 or so buys a polyethylene mesh cover that supports...
...customers speculated about the features that are expected to make for the most dramatically changed models in years. There will be a futuristic fastback shape for the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac line: a switch of seven models to vertical double headlights; the Ford's and Chrysler's new slab sides; a hop-up rear fender for the Chevrolet; and a new shape for the Corvair that makes it look like a miniature version of the Buick Riviera. These details, however, are ancient history to a small group of men who are already displaying considerable interest in the looks...
...entire gallery. "You can't absorb the room in one glance," explains Kiesler. "You must know what's above, below-again the totality." Part of the whole, called The Last Judgment, consists of a huge bonelike shaft of fire-gilt bronze that thrusts through a Plexiglas slab at counterimages of heaven and earth. It leaps up at an aluminum table whose bronze legs look like lightning bolts and jabs down at a white bronze floor plate. "Feel it," urges Kiesler, "the metal is warm like a woman's belly...
...Plymouth will grow from a 116-in. to a 119-in. wheelbase and become more interchangeable with the 119-in. Dodge. In addition to fielding a sports car, American Motors will introduce a new, longer (by 10 in.) Ambassador and a restyled Classic. Mercury will have a handsome new slab-sided car completely different in appearance from the Ford. The standard Ford will come out in its own version of slab-styling, first introduced by the 1960 Lincoln Continental, will also add vertical dual headlights à la Pontiac. For the first time in recent years, Ford's styling, which...
...picks up a rolling pin that could only have been made from a sequoia and crunches it down on a slab of cold butter. She lifts up a cleaver and amputates the outer wings of a goose, with a couple of chops that sound like cannon fire. She pops a chestnut into her mouth to see if it is done. She smiles and says between swallows, "Welcome to The French Chef. I'm Julia Child...