Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the possible exception of "Antony and Cleopatra," "Henry V" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays strains even the plastic Elizabethan stage beyond its limits. Oliver in his role of producer-director makes the most of the potentially wonderful freedom and mobility of motion pictures, thereby giving "Henry" a breadth of scope utterly unrealizable on the Elizabethan stage...
Last week in Boston, the New England Council of Optometrists looked at a new type of lens which might eliminate these difficulties. Manhattan Eyeman Dr. William Feinbloom had developed a plastic, nonbreakable lens which rocks seesaw fashion with the motion of the eye, thus forestalls cornea irritation. The new lens is available in a dozen stock models, can be fitted to any eye in a few minutes, costs $100 less than the old type...
...magnetophone, a lightweight sound-recording machine, using plastic tape coated with a special magnetic iron oxide instead of the steel wire in U.S. machines. A mile of plastic tape weighs one pound; the same length of wire 55 pounds...
Parking Problem. In Anniston, Ala., J. E. Moose put together plastic, nonstick chewing...
...paintings and sculptures which opened in the Cincinnati Art Museum this week. Visitors smiled dutifully, but found the machine no more amusing and no less confusing than the rest of the show. Among Moholy's proudest creations are his "space modulators"-abstract, painted sculptures of transparent plastic. They are unsigned, titled by numbers and letters only, "as if they were cars, airplanes or other industrial objects." Explains Moholy: "My desire was to go beyond vanity into the realm of objective validity, serving the public as an anonymous agent...