Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owns one of the world's best collec tions of Mexican archeological treasures, considers these contemporary masks as fine as those produced 1,000 years ago, and predicts that they will be museum pieces 1,000 years hence. They are, says Rivera, "a genuine expression of the plastic genius of the people of Mexico, combining the traditions of our ancient cultures with the contributions brought by the Spanish invasion. Along with the expressive potency of their forms and colors," Rivera adds darkly, "the masks have the black humor that enables our people to laugh at death and the devil...
...electric arm which Dr. Kessler described was made by International Business Machines Corp. The switches are operated by pressure of the toes. Electric motors supply power to bend and extend the elbow and wrist, to rotate the lifelike, plastic hand and to open and close the fingers and thumb...
Secret is Stretched Plastic...
Studying this method, Land realized that the process might work better on the molecular scale. He finally worked out a means in which a sheet of polyvinyl alcohol a thick plastic--was stretched. In the stretching, the molecules of the plastic would align themselves with their poles in the same direction. Land had a cheap, permanent device that was far more efficient, both in the transmission and the exclusion of light, than was its crystal predecessor...
...three-story building in Washington, D.C. last week, a woman whose legs have been withered by polio fitted plastic legs on torn dolls. Nearby, a blind man who had lost his sight in an explosion expertly tacked new upholstery on a frayed Willard Hotel chair. Around them, dozens of other disabled men & women worked busily in the headquarters of the Goodwill Industries of America...