Word: stainlessness
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...they buy it in the form of sweaters?" He promptly commissioned four top British artists to design sweaters-and now, after a "nightmare" period devoted to making colors and patterns accurate, the work-of-art sweaters are selling at $96 apiece, each packed in a box with a stainless-steel rim, polystyrene backing and a clear plastic front, so that they can be hung on a wall when not hung on an owner...
Where Company--whose award-winning book was also written by Mr. Furth--dissected a series of Manhatten marriages with the coolness of stainless steel. Twigs looks at a corresponding sampling of suburban couples with the compassion of a family retainer. As the program counsels, "The play takes place in a variety of kitchens, on the outskirts of a major city, on the day before Thanksgiving." Not Thanksgiving itself, mind you, but the very day before. Furth's playlets approach individual resolutions only to resolutely back away. Although there is a stability in Peter Larkin's sets--the four kitchens themselves...
...first swing-wing supersonic strategic bomber ever produced, Backfire is believed to have been designed by Andrei N. Tupolev, 82, who also developed the Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic transport. Aerodynamicists believe that the 131-ft.-long, 250,000-lb. Backfire is made of stainless steel with titanium to resist the heat stress of supersonic flight, and has an airframe skin bonding (instead of riveting). The plane's wings are in a forward position for long-range cruising and are jackknifed back about 40° for speeds of Mach 2.1 (about 1,400 m.p.h...
...side," while yin is bad, negative or "on the shadowy side." If a traditional acupuncturist diagnosed a patient as having too much yin somewhere, he would jab a selected point with a gold yang needle. In today's China, the newly respectable "scientific" acupuncturists rely mainly upon proletarian stainless steel. The modernists have added about 200 points to the list of accepted targets, and they sterilize their needles. But they are unable to explain how the treatment achieves its effects...
...quiet life" of monopolists-an existence undisturbed by the innovations of pushy competitors. Many of the genuinely new products that have appeared since World War II have been the work of small firms. Transistor radios were first sold in large volume by Sony, then a struggling young Japanese company; stainless-steel razor blades were introduced by Wilkinson Sword, a British firm that few Americans had heard of; dry copiers were invented by an obscure company then called Haloid Xerox; the picture-in-a-minute camera was developed by Polaroid, a firm with no prior experience in photography. Similarly, the fast...