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...French-made, soft-core porn film casts Paloma, 26, as a 17th century Transylvanian countess who gets her kicks by bathing in the blood of virgins. Though given few lines to speak, Paloma appears nude, engages in a lesbian love scene and at one point bathes in a vat of genuine pig's blood. "I did not like the part I had to play," she says ruefully, insisting that she will skip the film's New York premiere this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1976 | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...kidney machines, the blood is pumped past a semipermeable membrane via a complex network of tubes and pumps. The impurities in the blood pass through the membrane and into the so-called dialysate or purifying fluid, which consists of a mixture of water and salts supplied from a large vat holding 25 gal. or more. Such a container was obviously too large for a portable system. So Friedman and his engineering collaborator, James Hutchisson, decided on a 5-gal. plastic container customarily used by campers and yachtsmen to carry water. Because the portable unit's pumps were smaller, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kidney in a Suitcase | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...packed into a valise and shipped to Paris, where she is raped again, this time by one El Macho, and sent out with the garbage; relegated to some sort of free-floating madhouse whose inmates per form assorted atrocities with food; and, finally, made to roll naked in a vat of melted chocolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pleading Insanity | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...week that Pei "would absolutely withdraw if he thought a building was detrimental to the urban environment." "Mr. Pei takes great pains going into the neighborhood and interviewing people being dislocated and anybody who is touched financially," Landreth said. "All the data is then poured into a big central vat, before we consider the design we work...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: I.M. Pei: Is Luck the Residue of Design? | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Sexually liberated by the seventies, the old man recounts his slow development 200 years of breast-feeding. Listing great discoverers of history, he mentions Onan--"He discovered himself." But after relating his sensuous experience with Dolly Madison in a vat of ice cream--"My tush was cold for a week" he cracks a stale Playboy joke: "The presidents if they're not doing it to their wives, they're doing it to the nation...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: The Musical Fruit | 1/18/1974 | See Source »

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