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...human wants and values but are unable to comprehend them. Another member saw that arts and sciences are not necessarily the vehicle for teaching the perception and implementation of these values, but did stress the need for integration of disciplines in the University. He expressed the opinion that the tub-on-its-own-bottom concept is destructive to this integration and pointed to failures of attempted collaborative efforts between the GSD and the Business School in the area of planning. One member suggested that every department in the University, where appropriate, should institute programs in some aspects of urban studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSD Visiting Committee Minutes | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...most frustrating fixture of all, in Kira's view, is the tub-shower. "The only substantive reason for taking a tub bath is to relax," he maintains, "and yet it is precisely this that the vast majority of tubs have not permitted the user to do." The tub should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bathrooms for Living | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...tub all day long," said ex-Model Marisa Berenson, 28, as she recalled her difficulties with 18th century plumbing in Stanley Kubrick's new film Barry Lyndon. The movie, based on William Thackeray's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, features Ryan O'Neal as a young Irish rogue looking for wealth and Marisa as the countess who supplies it by marrying him. The bathtub, where she goes to brood after catching Ryan flirting with another girl, proved to be as annoying as it was authentic. "They had to keep rilling it with hot water. And since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1975 | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...costliest Christmas gift being offered this year may be a bathtub. The old-fashioned oval model is priced by Sakowitz, the Houston department store, at $118,335,000 (sales tax extra). But then, the tub is forever: it is filled with diamonds-enough, the holiday catalogue promises, "to cover an average female adult up to the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Tub That Is Forever | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...Daniels bottle in which Peg kept his hot as ice and clear as crystal brew was enough to feel a hell of a jolt, but Daniel had to go and pour the whole thing into his beer and Gay came back and, taking off her denims, climbed into the tub and suddenly it was right. Shooting stars peeled off the cob of the Milky Way, iridescent silk whipped off the rich black and yellow health of night, plunging into the darkness of the valley where a pair of headlights twined down the pass 20 miles away. Peg wondered whether...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

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