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...future. Indeed, the future was now, and adults were encouraged to behave like children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup...
...screenwriters and director Paul Aaron, they should be recognized for making a bad thing worse. The dialogue is such a hodgepodge of throwaway witticisms that it has virtually no substance...
...liability. Gershwin lacked a sense of structure, and too often Porgy is nothing but a series of vignettes: here comes the honey man, there goes the strawberry seller, stopping the action cold. Musically, the composer settles for a reprise when new material is clearly called for: Summertime, that delicious throwaway, comes back three times. And, surely, the jaunty tune of A Red-Headed Woman is more appropriate to the suave Sportin' Life than to the macho Crown...
...that it will provoke Soviet countermeasures, both in offensive and defensive weaponry, and thus a double helix in the arms race. On what could become the single most important and controversial national-security issue of the next year and even the next decade, Reagan provided, in one throwaway line Sunday night, a disturbing hint of his inclinations: he said that he wanted to develop a space-based missile killer in order to prove to the Soviets the U.S. had such a thing. Then, said the President, "We'll give 'em a demonstration...
Even though Bic has beaten Gillette in the lighter skirmish, the battle between the two companies will rage on. The firms are equally fierce competitors in the throwaway pen and razor markets. While Bic's pen outsells Gillette's Write Bros, model, the Gillette twin-blade disposable Good News shaver holds an edge over the Bic single-blade entry. Gillette is also the leading producer of blades and razors in the U.S. and Canada and most of the rest of the world. In the bathroom battle at least, the American company continues to clean...