Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mystic & Plastic...
...that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore's rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like a lump trying to shake off a nightmare, and perhaps rise to human nature...
...absent, as in certain types of leukemia the patient may die from internal bleeding through microscopic holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins, platelets can be separated and kept indefinitely at ordinary icebox temperatures...
Today's players get a little help hanging onto their molars; their big helmets often have plastic faceguards to give them some measure of protection. Still, the scars of battle are inevitable. When the Forty-Niners' Fullback Hardy Brown was carried out of his first game with the Lions this year, his groin ripped open by a set of slashing cleats, a reporter in the press box had the last word: "Pro football is getting like atomic war. There are no winners, only survivors...
...Musical Wheaties. As a new promotional gimmick for Wheaties, General Mills has bought 12 million plastic phonograph records (sample ditties: Dixie, Three Little Fishes) from Rainbo Record Corp., Los Angeles. The records are a cut-out part of the Wheaties box, can be played on any 78 r.p.m. phonograph...