Word: washer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they would do away with costly annual style changes. Even Lyndon Johnson, who signed the 1966 auto-safety bill into law, has found some Nader innovations irritating. On a drive across his Texas ranch, L.B.J. noticed a spot on the windshield of his new Chrysler and groped for the washer and wiper knobs. Still unfamiliar with the Nader-inspired safety feature of non-protruding knobs, Johnson pawed at the dashboard in vain while he continued to drive. Utterly frustrated, he turned to a passenger and muttered: "That goddamned Nader...
...politics (the FBI had Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics (Léaud shows striking workers two truly revolutionary films: Lola Monies and The Great Dictator). It may all be dreary now, but in ten years Savoir will have a certain faint curiosity value-kind of like a 1936 Easy washer with wringer...
...remembers "when we curled together/innocent and happy as a pair of socks/fresh from the washer," but this was only a respite from "venom and boredom." Actually. "You ruined me." The poem works because the images bring the woman to life. When she gets to the metaphysical climax-"To love is crazy"-the empty words are suddenly meaningful...
...their eyes (some have taken to wearing sunglasses indoors), and that their parties are dreadfully dull: the guests all just stand around, staring out. Joyce Susskind gets glassy-eyed when she recalls the day she walked naked from her shower, looked out of her windows-and saw a window washer looking in. Stunned, Mrs. Susskind "just sat on the bed and stared. I'll never forget his face -and I'm sure he'll never forget mine...
Another potential witness shows up on the scene, a hilariously surly window washer. Adroitly played by James Coco, he is a sharply drawn caricature of the New York City prole ("I may be 40 stories up but I'm the man in the street"), who coolly surveys the tied-up man straining to free his bonds and ignores his gagged pleas and his plight with magnificent aplomb. He intends to write a book about all the crazy things a window washer sees, and this is simply another usable item...