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Gamma rays kill all coliform bacteria in the water, which is then filtered and scrubbed clean of particles. The result is as clear, pure and tasteless as distilled water. Dr. David R. Woodbridge, a physicist and one of the method's inventors, says that the process can be used in medium-sized cities and would cost householders about $3.50 per month more than they are now paying for fresh water. If necessary, tasty additives could be introduced. Presumably, a dash of DDT and a cup of raw sewage would bring the clean water to present U.S. standards...
...character and lack of identity. Robinson is black, and the idea of a black Vladimir is stunning and certainly feasible. However, it is mind-boggling that Estragon's speech describing Vladimir's world view as "black" clicits from Robinson a clenched, upraised fist. Moreover, such a gesture is tasteless in context...
...commercial fallout. Flag manufacturers have doubled their sales in the past year, and some cannot keep up with orders. An entire generation of novelty and boutique entrepreneurs is outfitting the counter-culture with starred-and-striped pants, ties, ashtrays, shaving mugs, pillowcases, pens and even, in the most tasteless exploitation of all, toilet paper. Manhattan's Earthra Gift Shop does well with its Old Glory cigarette lighters (made in Japan). Jeans West, started 18 months ago, uses the flag motif on T shirts, vests and other items; the owners expect to gross $10 million in their second fiscal year...
...school owned by Myron's uncle, Buck Loner (John Huston). Once she implants herself as a teacher there, she decides to initiate her program of conquest of the male by sexually humiliating a Cro-Magnon pupil named Rusty Godowsky (Roger Herren). That task done, in a scene so tasteless that it represents some sort of nadir in American cinema, she fobs Rusty off on a horny old talent agent (Mae West) and puts a light finishing touch on her dark enterprise by trying to seduce Rusty's girl friend (Farrah Fawcett...
...also compares ejaculation to a missile launching into outer space-adding, jauntily, that the sexual launching is into "inner space." This too-calculated irreverence and tasteless tone undermine Reuben's attempt to inform...