A kitchen sink in the island is just not practical. Who wants to sit at the island and look into the sink with dirty dishes in it? Islands are great for setting out a buffet, and then there's a dirty sink in the middle of it all! No thanks!
During the Cold War, popular culture provided Americans with images of nuclear war. Mushroom clouds, DEFCON alerts, exploding buildings, fallout-shelter signs—the possibility of a nuclear holocaust was always lurking in the background, like the figure of Death hiding among revelers in a Bosch triptych.