Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to push a hypodermic needle into the bag of waters, why not keep going and push it into the fetus' abdomen? At National Women's Hospital in Auckland, he did just that. Through the bore of the heavy-gauge needle, he then inserted a thin plastic tube. And through this he injected red cells, Rh-negative like the mother's, to replace the baby's own Rh-positive cells, which were being destroyed. A fetus can absorb blood cells directly from its abdominal cavity...
...massive, virtually total exchange transfusion. But how to give it? In one case, Dr. Adamsons boldly cut through the mother's abdominal wall and enough of the uterus to expose the fetus' abdomen and one leg. He cut into the fetus' groin and put a plastic catheter in the femoral artery. Through this tube he withdrew much of the baby's blood and replaced it with donor blood. Astonishingly, this radical surgery did not kill the fetus. But when the mother later went into labor, the baby was too premature to survive...
...understand. Compared to the beer cans, taxidermic delights, and other hairy intrusions of other new art, their art is clean, almost scrubbed raw. Without resorting to optical ping-pong, they soak pure peacock color into huge, unprimed, raw canvas. With all the flamboyant color that today's plastic paints can provide, their works please some as wall hangings, avant-garde tapestries aglow with unconventional color combinations and quite uncomplicated by symbolism...
...Swift books, fresh Beluga caviar, and 900 Macy's private-label items, the last at prices 10% to 15% below national brands. Macy's has a shop that sells nothing but candles, another devoted solely to Oriental rugs, still others dealing only in antiques or plastic flowers. It also has its own prescription drugstore, hardware and auto-accessories shops, theater club, travel agent, and a jewelry store watched over by a plainclothes detective. In its wine shop, which has its own wine tasters, $28.35 magnums of 1955 Taittinger Blanc de Blancs champagne mingle with 99? California sherry...
...Macy's own brands) through tests of fire, water, high pressure and simulated wear. Recently the testers ordered Macy's advertising department not to call a raincoat "water-resistant" because it failed to withstand a heavy shower for 21 minutes, and not to call a plastic Christmas tree "fireproof," because it melted when exposed to flame...