Word: bleaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolutions of the past three decades are acknowledged only through minor modifications. In Wayne Cilento's reconceived choreography for A Secretary Is Not a Toy, the secretaries give their bosses a fine comeuppance, and the all-white cast of the original (which in the 1967 movie version managed to bleach even the streets of Manhattan) has been racially integrated. A black woman (Lillias White as Miss Jones, the boss's formidable secretary) broadens the "brotherhood" in the last big song, The Brotherhood of Man, turning it into a rousing gospel number. These small touches enhance the show's charm...
...lethal virus -- spattered the inside of the centrifuge. Fortunately, the Yale University researcher working with the deadly germs was wearing a lab gown, latex gloves and a mask, as required under federal guidelines. He also knew the proper procedure for dealing with a deadly spill: rub every surface with bleach, sterilize all instruments that have been exposed, then wipe everything down again with alcohol. There was just one rule he failed to follow. Having decided the danger was over, he didn't bother to report the accident, and a few days later he left town to visit an old friend...
Replacing dressing-for-success with dressing-for-sex is no leap forward. Men don't wear tight pants to get a promotion or a new client. By contrast, women lighten, heighten, straighten, curl, iron and bleach their hair. Unwanted hair is ripped out by its roots with hot wax, shaved, electrolyted and depilated. Bound feet may never have caught on here, but high heels that force the entire body weight to rest on the tip of the big toe are a cause of daily anguish...
...lunchtime on Feb. 3, 1984, three white prisoners at the Missouri State Penitentiary confronted a black inmate, Arthur Dade, as he emerged from his cell. One assailant threw a container of steaming bleach water in Dade's face and another grabbed him from behind. The group's leader then stabbed Dade several times with a homemade knife. One suspect was caught immediately, another shortly after he fled. A guard identified the third as Schlup, whom authorities found eating a fish sandwich in the prison cafeteria...
...paper companies worry about recouping investments they will have to make in recycling, but from their viewpoint, the policy could have been worse. The President could have forbidden government purchases of paper whitened by chlorine bleach. Environmentalists charge that chlorine-containing waste chemicals contaminate waterways around paper mills; companies say the pollution is limited. While Clinton did not insist on chlorine-free paper, he did relax the whiteness standard for federal stationery. Companies that offer not-so-bright but eco-friendly paper may find some big customers in Washington...