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Quirky, neon-bright and very American in its images of cars, teen-agers and spray-can art, Deuce Coupe was unlike anything ever seen by uptown ballet audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Touch of Tharp | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...vast majority of tubs have not permitted the user to do." The tub should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different-shaped handles located away from the water source so that the soap-blinded bather can adjust water temperatures by feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bathrooms for Living | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...fact that he's aware of his own ludicrousness doesn't prevent Allan from doing stupid, inappropriate things. In trying to impress a blind date, he anoints himself profusely with Mennen Spray Deodorant, Lavoris, Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder, Canoe and Binaca--leaves Thelonius Monk and Bartok albums strewn "carelessly" about and waxes philosophically ("Pain...it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.") He knows what he's doing, and yet somehow can't restrain himself...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Pianissimo, Maestro | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...Vidas en la Playa (translation: "three lives on the beach") is slowly reverting to the thicket it once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike flag of Mexican unions-are encamped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Paradise Lost | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Taylor said the spray smelled like insecticide and may have been mace...

Author: By Clark Mason, | Title: Taylor Attacked | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

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