Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...digging and filling for Marghera's deep-water tanker canals and protective dikes have not only helped erode the island's underpinnings, but also seem to have unsettled the natural ebb and flow of the tidal waters. In the past, flooding was a rarity in Venice. But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses. Along the canals, water has seeped through foundations to crack and moisten plaster walls -some of them holding priceless paintings. The frescoes by Paolo Veronese...
...harmony. The validity of his theory can be traced in an unusually delicate if cloyingly romantic painting, the 1854 idyll Turkish Women Bathing. The Greek statuary and the languid maidens seem a bit ridiculous, but its true quality lies in its handling of color. The transparent blues of the water and sky determine the orange garments of two figures, the dusky greens set off the dark red of a blanket...
...pitch-black world. His only guide was his sense of touch. Through tubes and rubbery barricades, up and down gradients, past something that felt like an oscillating fur muff, the visitor groped his way. Just before emerging again into the light, he was engulfed, not unpleasantly, by a water-filled plastic mattress with a temperature about the same...
...Francisco Designer C. Prior Hall arrived with the water-filled mattress. He calls it the Pleasure Pit, and passed out copy advertising its virtues: "It is a friend in love with you. Beckoning you to grovel in rapturous sensual splendor" -and so on, down to the punch line: "The Pleasure Pit is like taking your bed to bed with...
Also under severe criticism from the experts, though not yet the targets for FDA regulatory action, are medicated mouthwashes. The panel on drugs used in dentistry found that mouthwashes are generally about as effective as a solution of common salt or even plain water. It suggested that the makers be required to drop claims that their products control breath odor, relieve throat pain or reduce the number of bacteria in the mouth. The washes should be allowed on the market, the panel said, only if they are advertised as "pleasantly flavored solutions...