Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English, is sell trash. Not just any trash, to be sure. Gross, 23, rifles through the garbage cans of Beverly Hills, ferreting out such choice items as receipts from Cartier or cocktail napkins from the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge. He then packages the debris in a clear plastic bag, slaps on a pink and green Beverly Hills Trash label and charges $5 for each bag-cum-artwork...
...Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck, and even moderates are concerned that the government has gone too far in snubbing controversial revolutionary leaders. "They are going to present people with a pasteurized, dissected, plastic-wrapped revolution," complains philosopher and leftist philosopher Andre Glucksmann...
...workers at Sun Microsystems enjoy a good prank. On April Fools' Day last year they turned the office of their 34-year-old chairman, Scott McNealy, into a putting green with authentic sod. This year they wrapped their headquarters building in Mountain View, Calif., with a layer of plastic wrap...
...three cooks, master and apprentices, sit expressionless at a table perched atop the highest granite boulder, talking with macho casualness of the consecutive days and nights they spend tied to the maze of mantle heaters, two-way retorts, pumps, air-scavenging systems, condensers and plastic piping during a "burn." Says Bernard: "If you set it up right, nobody knows where you are; it's no big thing." Bernard is a virtuoso of camouflage by misdirection, of hiding the obvious in plain sight. Once, this kitchen crew recalls delightedly, they cooked a batch on the shore of Lake Elsinore, a popular...
...destroyed the insulating ability of their fur; 42 have died. Animals dead on arrival steadily filled up a white refrigerated truck trailer parked nearby. A black-tailed Sitka deer carcass stuck out of a 32-gal. garbage can, and dozens of otters lay in a pile, covered with plastic. Uncounted other victims will never be retrieved. A preliminary beach survey indicated an average of 80 oil-coated ducks and other kinds of birds per 100 meters. Bald eagles have been scavenging the contaminated birds, and the sound's population of 3,000 eagles may therefore be at risk...