Word: latex
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...Vendetta” is a slight exception. The film substitutes the latex-clad Jessica Alba type for an emaciated, bald-headed Natalie Portman ’03 and a childlike plot for what attempts to be an eye opening political satire...
...some way. The alchemy that satisfies the IRS is a simple process: some plants spray newly mined coal with diesel fuel, pine-tar resin, limestone, acid or other substances--a practice that industry critics call "spray and pray." Other operators mix coal-mining waste with chemicals, coat it with latex and blend it with untreated coal to form briquettes. (For an earlier story on the scheme, see "The Great Energy Scam," TIME...
...there’s all these dirty videos...we’re bombarded,” would so quickly and so gleefully add to that bombardment. His video for “Black Sweat” consists mostly of a curvaceous model type, alternately clad in latex, lamè, and lingerie, dancing provocatively while Prince attempts to prove that an effeminate, short, 47-year-old singing falsetto can be sexy. Whether or not it’s successful is a matter of personal preference, but it is entertaining to watch him try.Maybe it’s the illusion of class...
SCOTCHGARD In 1953 Patsy Sherman, one of the few women chemists at a major corporation, was researching in 3M's labs ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and solvents couldn't remove the compound, but Sherman also noticed it resisted dirt. So she and a colleague improved its liquid repellency, and three years later 3M sold it on the market as a suede protectant. In 1973 Sherman obtained a patent for it to preserve carpets...
...took a marginal 1992 movie about a cheerleader who whups the undead and turned it into a story of self-discovery with strong emotional, ahem, stakes. Over 40 discs and 144 episodes, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) grows from snarky adolescent into wounded young woman, leaving a trail of latex-faced villains behind her. The finest episodes come in the more mature later seasons--especially the Sondheimesque musical "Once More, with Feeling" in Season...