Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trappings of conventional scifi, but it works as a kind of crack-brained adventure. Fuest, who made his reputation with a couple of fang-in-cheek vampire flicks, has a good time parading Hero Jon Finch about in black - a color scheme observed even in his nail polish and toothbrush but modified in his shirts, which are sparkling white and ruffled, like a lapsed romantic poet's. It is comforting to know, how ever, that when some heroics are required, Finch can rise to the occasion, or at least get himself up on one elbow...
People like me and just about everyone else in this country perpetuate this world situation every time we partake of such seemingly innocent acts as buying a toothbrush or a pair of pants or a television set. Each time we participate in the American market we help perpetuate a time-hallowed structure of domination by the rich nations over the poor. In most of the products we buy we help prop up national companies and global corporations whose accumulated economic advantages enable them to drain off much of the wealth of developing nations, preventing those same nations from developing their...
...just co-authored a New Republic article calling for Johnson to be driven from public life. Yet L.B.J. took a shine to her, personally assigned her to White House duties, and gradually confided in her. As the relationship grew, he pressed small gifts on her, including one electric toothbrush after another -twelve...
...then Chris asked Chuck if that girl, the naked one he meant, had any hair in her ass hole and everybody laughed at that and Chuck got mad. Tom said, OK let's see the suitcase and they opened it up and there were six pairs of socks, a toothbrush, three sets of underwear brand new, a carton of Kools, another pair of jeans and some deodorant and shaving cream. Tom said he had a suitcase and there wasn't anything in this one that he wanted...
Last year the average U.S. household used some 8,000 kw-h., or more than thirteen times as much as in the 1930s. Contrary to much pop sociology, a proliferation of frivolous power gadgets is not to blame. An electric toothbrush uses only 0.5 kwh. of electricity per year, about a penny's worth. A carving knife costs about 18? per year, or 8 kw-h., a garbage disposer about 69?, or 30 kwh. per year. Because they are expressly engineered for specific functions, the new electric griddles, fry pans, toasters and coffeemakers are more efficient and economical than...