Word: fiberglass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JACQUES PLANTE Gordie Howe was great, Bobby Orr greater, Wayne Gretzky the greatest--yet none altered the course of hockey quite so much as the piece of molded fiberglass that Jacques Plante affixed to his head on Nov. 1, 1959. Already the dominant goaltender of his era, Plante could now venture out from his circumscribed piece of ice in front of the Montreal net, there to face down without flinching the bullet shots of the league's best shooters. After Plante, hockey's goalies--virtually all of them masked by 1970--would display a new boldness, a more aggressive posture...
Marty Bernich, against all odds, was smiling. His ranch-style home was crumbled all around him. His cars lay crushed and muddied on his front lawn. The air was filled with floating, irritating bits of fiberglass insulation. But Bernich, a resident of a once nice block in Moore, Okla., knew how lucky he was. Not 48 hours earlier, he, his wife and their two daughters had shut themselves in a small utility room, linked arms and prayed, knowing a monster loomed above. "It was surreal, time was frozen," he said. "It felt like the tornado was hovering over our house...
...addition, Fitch says no matter how unfortunate his art projects--the worst probably being the fiberglass bench and fountain combination that Kiely allowed him to display outside of the House--Kiely only wanted to know when he could expect a coffee table...
SWEET DREAMS The new Dual Support System on Sealy's posh Posturepedic Crown Jewel bed sounds dreamy: longer mattress coils, with 40% more steel, cradle the body and provide firm support. And the compact, 4-in.-tall box spring (7.5 in. is standard) is made of reinforced fiberglass for better shock absorption. But the $1,000 to $3,000 price for a queen set could easily ruin your reverie...
Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Before, the Semitic Museum was just a repository of large fiberglass statues and 3,000-year-old broken plates. But with this exhibit, it has become a vision of the future cast into the past, a concrete reason why history matters. Naturally, I had to stop by and see the secrets of Nuzi for myself...