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...Francisco gallery, and last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum made an exhibition out of them. Since neurotic, alcoholic young Pollock was not trying to produce art but to get help, it is not surprising that the drawings are no more interesting than any other spray of surrealist symbolism. Equally unsurprising was the reaction of Pollock's widow: that the public display of such material was in regrettable taste...
...team of Chicago doctors criticized the aerosol bronchial sprays that asthma sufferers, among others, increasingly use to help open constricted bronchial passages. After a detailed study, Drs. George Taylor and Willard Harris reported that some sprays produced abnormal heart rhythms in mice, rats and dogs. They also warned that Freon-the heavier-than-air gas used as a propellant in many of the bronchial nebulizers-is absorbed into the blood through the lungs and affects the heart. This may be responsible for the rising death rate among spray users during the past ten years. Published reports show more than...
...requires no special plumbing or wiring and runs on standard household current. Garbage is loaded into a bag in the 17-in.-high waste drawer at the bottom of the 15-in.-wide appliance. Each time the Masher is filled, which in most households would be daily, a spray device automatically squirts a deodorizing and disinfecting liquid on the trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis,, diarrhea, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...
When someone talks about a pyramid, there is a flash cut of an erect nipple; when the hoodlum dyes his hair, there is a cut to the singer spray-painting a wall. James Fox is nevertheless excellent as the gangster, and Jagger seems to be having a lark. Few others will share his pleasure...