Word: spray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Where the wide-eyed seek true romance, the native seek experience, and the jaded seek an easy lay. Where everyone wears a swimsuit during the day but nobody spends much time in the water. The smell of coconut oil on the beach almost equals the smell of salt spray; the taste of beer touches far more tongues than that of brine. The ocean is just an excuse...
...Their forms, based on the French curves used by architectural draftsmen, are cut from honeycombed aluminum. But they are loaded with color, blaring with the kind of greedy, apoplectic vitality. On first sight, they look as though a squad of glue-snorting graffitists had been let loose with crayons, spray cans and party glitter in a constructivist warehouse. Surfaces that Stella would once have left pure and flat are loaded with rich, scribbled color. The shapes slice and crash, in and out, mocking the conventions of flatness and integrity of the picture plane...
...winter golfer also requires a special ball to combat the elements. At the Chili Open, contestants were provided with balls which they spray painted black, green, red, or yellow...
...researchers gave male volunteers aged 50 to 65 three sprays of vasopressin in each nostril every day for three days. Similar volunteers who received whiffs of a dummy spray showed no response. But the concentration and memory of those who got the vasopressin improved markedly. Three patients who had suffered impaired memories after auto accidents were given doses for four weeks. One man, 55, was able to remember the dates of his accident, his marriage and other important events that he had been unable to recall before treatment...
Robert Morley, who advertises British Airways: "Commercials are the last things in life you can count on for a happy ending. The girl with the right hair spray gets the boy-or vice versa...