Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going to bed in Japan these days often requires a good night's sleep in advance. No more can the weary traveler anticipate curling up on the traditional straw mat, bundled between layers of silken spreads-or even on a regular bed, which is still rare in Japan. Instead...
The Japanese yen for "play beds" started slowly enough. First there were the "come-come" models-twins that shot together at the flick of a button. Soon came the "miracle series," or circular double beds, each installed on a turntable on the floor and surrounded by such inbred in-bed...
Now there is the Pegasus, a double bed that climbs three feet up and down; the Seesaw, which makes the bedroom a playground; and the Seesaw Pony, which not only teeters but simultaneously flips a center section up and down. There is an Apollo series, double beds with built-in...
Bailey did not merely photograph swinging London; he was part of it. As Evans puts it, Bailey was "the prototype of the dashing Cockney photographer"-and the prototype for the hero of Blow-Up. Other photographers, of course, collected a lot of money and a lot of girls. But few...
Not everybody, of course, likes Bailey. Or the book. One British reviewer called it "a lugubrious epitaph for our waning decade." Muggeridge called the whole effort commercial bananas. Even Bailey doesn't exactly promote it when he says: "I've done a superficial book about a superficial period...