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...captive chicks are no more spiritually attractive than they are mentally alert. Nor are their hardships exactly heartrending. It is true that their cellar prison lacks fresh air, sunlight, comfy mattresses and a flush toilet and that the food is just not up to international cruise standards. Still, one cannot help thinking that a little down-and-out living may be good for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rose Dud | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?" Triptych, May-June 1973, with its deliquescent knot of white flesh hunched on a toilet, spewing into a basin and casting a melodramatic bat's shadow on the floor, is an elegy for George Dyer, who committed suicide in a Paris hotel room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Screams in Paint | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Another of the country's leading designers currently is Acton Bjorn, 64, who heads his own firm and has designed such non-hauteur items as a beer bottle for the Moote Cordonnier brewery in France, an electric iron for General Electric, even a special lightweight toilet seat for use in hospitals throughout Scandinavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Those Designing Europeans | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

HEALTH AND SAFETY: Almaden has a management-labor health and safety committee, and is required to provide protective clothing and tools, first aid supplies, toilet facilities, and cool drinking water. The contract states that "Workers will not be required to work when to do so would endanger their health and safety." The Teamster contract does not deal with any of these issues...

Author: By Carol Radway and Christopher Tilly, S | Title: Gallo Boycott: | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

...lucky, the new soldier is assigned to a facility that looks more like a garden apartment complex than a military barracks. Completely air-conditioned, the buildings are equipped with color television, single beds, spacious lockers and individual toilet facilities that old Sad Sack, the perennial latrine orderly, would not believe. So far, only one of these super-barracks has been constructed at Fort Jackson, but three others are being built or are scheduled for erection, enough to handle half of the 4,000 male recruits that stream through the gates every month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: This Is the Army Mr. Jones? | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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