Word: toaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Higgins is a B-grade writer with a weakness for overstretched metaphor: "Her dentures clattered like castanets on crusts of French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke
...Santa Claus has several new possibilities in store. Those inclined to put the Vice President on the receiving end may look forward to a Spiro Agnew wastebasket, with decorations commemorating his crowning victories on the golf course and tennis court. A windup Richard Nixon box looks something like a toaster and contains a loose-jointed figure in the presidential image that dances to a tinkly Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Strangely silent, however, is the forthcoming Martha Mitchell doll, authorized by the Attorney General's wife herself...
...Miniaturized film, as in CBS's Electronic Video Recording (EVR) system, is coiled in cartridges and inserted in a converter unit connected to the antenna terminals of a TV set. The sealed cartridge threads and rewinds itself and is as uncomplicated to operate as a toaster. Each plate-sized cartridge carries 25 minutes of color programming, or, if books are filmed (a page per frame), about 500 average-length novels...