Word: tinfoil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a souffle unless you have a souffle dish.' They make cooking sound like a fantastic science, and that makes a lot of people afraid to cook." Never fear, is Alice's message; to party givers who run short of plates, she suggests improvising with tinfoil-lined automobile hubcaps...
...words and (many) pictures. Inevitably among those present: pre-pop Surrealist Dali, Prurient Dali, Renaissance Dali, and Dali, boy genius grown old. Also, on practically every page, Dali the pyrotechnician in paint, the most engaging, self-indulgent and talented decorator of his age. Appropriately wrapped, like candy, in gold tinfoil...
...declares: "Now this is a rather ratty object, a relative of the onion called tritelia. It's really not worth the trouble of growing, but some people do, so I have to show it to you." She talks about cow dung as if it were French perfume, condemns tinfoil wrapping as "a crime against a blooming plant...
Miles is even bringing change to its basic product, Alka-Seltzer-an efferescent antacid compound of aspirin, bicarb of soda, citric acid and mono-calcium phosphate. It has added to its traditional blue-labeled bottle handy tinfoil packs of Alka-Seltzer that can fit into pocket or purse, is test-marketing ginger-and citrus-flavored versions of the tablet. To convince people that they do not have to drink a gallon of water with Alka-Seltzer, the company is also suggesting in its ads that they adopt the habit of downing Alka-Seltzer "on the rocks," with only a touch...
...lives. Toby sustains a whole lifetime upon one moment of triumph: the time when his grammar school teacher read his paper on "The Lost Tribe" to the class. Awakened by the kiss, Zoe's womanly urge to create something, anything, is fulfilled just once-when she twists some tinfoil into the semblance of a sculptured forest scene and is admired for it. "The communication of my life," she sums herself up, "a kiss in mid-ocean between myself and a half-drunken seaman. The creation of my life-oh my God!-a silver-paper shape fashioned from the remains...