Word: foamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They crowd and wait as though for the beginning of the fox trot. All that's missing is a bar, so that these curly-headed lanky youths (our race is as tall as ever) may blow white beer foam onto the tombs...
Mantle believed it. He underwent surgery five times to remove torn cartilage from his knees and bone chips from his right shoulder. For eight seasons he had to bind each leg from ankle to thigh with 7-ft. strips of foam-rubber bandages "to hold things together." Even so, in his final years, he was reduced to hobbling around the field like a cart horse. And at the plate, each time he swung the bat he noticeably winced and grunted with pain...
...process of celebrating "process," Sturtevant has also rendered herself somewhat ridiculous (she once slathered herself with shaving foam to pose for her version of Man Ray's photograph of Marcel Duchamp). This disturbs her not one whit. "I have no place at all," she says, with a faraway look in her eye, "except in relation to the total structure. What interests me is not communicating but creating change. Some people feel that a great change in esthetics in general is happening, though few understand exactly why. Mainly, there is a great deal of anxiety...
...killed 134. As a result, Enterprise had been staffed with professional firefighters. Better equipment was provided, including improved water pumps, hoses that are less prone to break and special units that combine a chemical called "Purple K" and "light water" to produce a substance that smothers the fire with foam. Most important, the Enterprise crew had been thoroughly drilled in preventive tactics, which they performed superbly last week. As Chief Warrant Officer Helton put it: "That was the ultimate drill...
...Plastic as Plastic never forced significance on the viewer. A lot of it showed that besides being beautiful, plastics could be a lot of fun. One soft polyurethane foam sphere (37" diameter) turns into a chair when you sit on it. A small gallery has clothes and jewelry--everything from a very uncomfortable pair of clear lucite clog-sandals, to a Medusa-esque necklace of fluorescent acetate strips. More for Christmas giving were the translucent amber boots (vinylite) by Herbert Levine, who supposedly manufactures for I. Miller, and chunky, colorful Plexiglas rings, available at Bonniers. And for would-be travelers...