Word: plastically
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...while the stork cradle drew the headlines, something far more regrettable happened in the shadows three days later. On May 18, a young Japanese couple were arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter. Four months before, the boy had allegedly been stuffed into the luggage compartment of a motorcycle while the parents gambled at a pachinko parlor, and may have suffocated to death while they played...
...ball hits the ground on the opponent's side, or if the return is hit out of bounds, a point is scored. There are three players per side, though variations exist. But the game's telegenic oomph (and there's plenty) comes from sustained volleys, deadly serves-the hard plastic ball reaches speeds up to 100 km/h-and the cartwheel spike, a power move of agility and aggression where a player backflips into the air to strike the ball with his foot (the court is only covered with thin matting, so landing without injury requires practice). A defender usually leaps...
Cider's a cool brew now, but it wasn't always thus. "It was thought of as a product consumed by vagrants on park benches," says Maurice Pratt, C&C chief executive. Cider was commonly sold in large plastic bottles at discount prices, bolstering its cheap image. In Ireland, C&C's cider is called Bulmers Original (it's the same thing as Magners, but drinks company Scottish & Newcastle owns the Bulmers brand outside Ireland). Struggling with stagnant sales in the 1990s, C&C decided dowdy Bulmers needed a makeover. It cut the alcohol content to 4.5% (about the same...
...Their more affluent peers—in the spirit of modesty, no doubt—prefer to make intimations of English country living, with green Barbour coats and tartan scarves. Even gaudy plastic jewelry is evidence of a campy sophistication, and can compensate for an otherwise dowdy wardrobe. Again, few students consciously intend to define themselves by class, it just happens...
...line of students in tank tops and t-shirts extended 30 feet outside the door to Science Center D. Inside, sheets of plastic enveloped the rostrum, a man in a top hat and a clown suit jogged across the stage, and a black four-string Ibanez bass leaned upright next to a drum set. The plastic would be necessary; the bass and drums would not. Pop-rock group OK Go’s appearance last night was billed as a “Battle of the Bands,” but instead of making music, the group famous for dancing...