Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag at half-mast. Only the tolling of bells, the slopping sound of water against pilings, the bitter wind singing in the telegraph wires broke the silence as the first bodies were brought ashore. They were wrapped, not in half a red sail, but in blue blankets and blue plastic shrouds, and Monsignor George Quinn whispered the prayers for the dead over each of them. Mourned a woman in the crowd: "Three of my own were brought back the same way. May God and his Holy Mother have mercy on their souls...
...Rexall's lifeblood, and Dart has carefully courted them. He urges them to visit the Los Angeles headquarters (1,000 will this year), rolls out the red carpet. When the junketeering Rexallite marches into the lobby, he is surprised to see his name posted in two-inch-high plastic letters on a welcome sign and hear it blared through a public-address system...
...strum. No fingering necessary . . . You can go on TV with your own guitar and your own entertainment." This invitation to the arts is part of an advertisement for the Dial-A-Chord, a $12 gadget that enables a fledgling guitarist to change chords at the flick of a plastic wheel and presumably to toss off a habanera at first strumming. Music merchants on their way home last week from their annual convention in Chicago went armed with dozens of such labor-saving and interest-killing devices designed to hook some of the passive listeners from the record market. Among them...
...Brasilia Niemeyer must still design theaters, stations, airport buildings, must approve every private venture, find materials, supervise all projects. For the city's 3,000-seat cathedral, he plans a tepee of concrete poles 220 ft. high, sheathed in translucent plastic and stained glass. "Brasilia," says Niemeyer, "begins a new phase in my work, more geometrical, more simple, more monumental." Post-Brasilia outlook: "I have not thought about it. I suppose I will have to start my life all over again...
...Even the waters that flow from taps in the Grotto are exploited. "Go drink at the fountain and there wash yourself," Bernadette is said to have admonished after reporting that the Virgin had appeared to her in the Grotto. Merchants have not forgotten a word of it: they sell plastic bottles artfully shaped like Bernadette or the Virgin for carrying off the water, Bernadette-imprinted soap for washing in it. Other "water" items: perfume, throat lozenges, cakes and candy advertised as "made from water blessed by the Holy Father." One ad agency is talking of hiring an airplane to skywrite...