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...Mechanical Engineer Edwin Robbins, the result was pure farce. Nothing worked, not the multitone door chimes or the intercom system, not the Danish dining-room chandelier or the bedroom clocks, not the hair dryer or the electric blankets, not the can opener or the carving knife, not the toothbrush or the razor. Not even the electric-eye garage door. For dinner, the Robbinses had charcoal-broiled steaks grilled over a primitive backyard barbecue...
Having trouble reaching those nooks and crannies with your toothbrush? Unable to master the approved up-and-down stroke? Does dental floss shred in your mouth and stick between your teeth? Bleeding gums, perhaps? Then Aqua Tec Corp. of Fort Collins, Colo., has the perfect answer...
...much she knows about him - or Ronson. He's going to slice the roast with his Ronson Carve 'n' Slice electric knife, just as he shaves with a Ronson shaver, shines shoes on a Ronson electric buffer, and brushes his teeth with a Ronson electric toothbrush...
...plate warmers that it has just introduced a $12.95 electric sweater dryer. Dominion has brought out a manicure set and Osrow a refrigerator defroster. The housewife can also get small appliances to buff floors, mash potatoes, peel carrots, and warm her towels. The greatest successes have been the electric toothbrushes and slicing knives. Like many other of the new appliances, the toothbrush was first dismissed as a gimmick when Olin Mathieson's Squibb Division introduced it in 1960. It has become such a big seller-sales this year will reach 5,000,000-that 34 other companies have rushed...
Winnie, increasingly immobile (in the second act she is buried up to her neck) and denied the escape of death, is forced to assert her existence through Willie and her "things" a bag, a comb, a toothbrush, a revolver. The smallest objects become signs of life, and assume a life of their own. The parasol may burn up, the glasses may be smashed, but Winnie knows that they will mysteriously return, unharmed, to sustain her endless day, and she cries with appropriately endless irony, "That is what I find so wonderful, the way things...(voice breaks, head down)...things...