Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suzanne Sulzberger, art professor at the University of Brussels: "I can only compare restoration to plastic surgery for women. Wrinkles and other signs of age may disappear, but the overall impression is one of artificiality, of untruthfulness...
...medical science begun to learn how different drugs affect individual parts of the brain. In Philadelphia last week, physicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings...
Bushwhacked. In Canberra, Australia, a delegation of aborigines complained to the government that plastic, made-in-Japan boomerangs were cutting off their livelihood...
...embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
...fact, they used four emboli, the surgeons reported in the A.M.A. Journal: tiny spheres of plastic (methyl methacrylate), with metal fragments inside to show up on X rays, and ranging from 2.5 mm. to 4.2 mm. in diameter. They opened the left side of the anesthetized patient's neck to expose the main branching of the carotid artery, principal supplier of blood to the brain. At 15-minute intervals they inserted successively larger plastic emboli. All came to rest at the base of the malformation, reducing its blood supply. The last and biggest pellet lodged for a while...