Word: plasticities
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...visual art well before such challenges became common practice among her peers. And when Eugenia Butler did explore physical media, she maintained her dedication to the provocative and at times discomfiting. My Last Museum Piece, her 2003 reprise of an original 1969 work, consisted of a huge, clear plastic ball, its interior smeared with honey and buzzing with captive flies. She suffered a brain hemorrhage...
...tried to explain that my PhotoShop skills stop at the “plastic wrap” tool...
...Those halcyon days of my sophomore year, replete with plastic gallon bottles of Cossack gin in the Junior Common Room, will soon go the way of Lobster Night, House pride, and Allston residents. In their stead, undergrads will get long nights of nursing Natty Ice and making awkward small talk with creepy graduate students—euphemistically styled “Beverage Authorization Teams”—who will soon be a mandatory part of every tea social on campus...
...buttery, fruity, peppery flavor. You're supposed to use it on vegetables or with bread--though I still wouldn't pay this much even for an olive oil that made me psyched to eat zucchini. The Five Star Butter Co.'s raw, organic butter comes in a comfortingly simple plastic tube, since it's sold mostly to high-end restaurants that put it in their own molds before serving it. The company has the guts to call it the Best Butter on Earth, and at 83% butterfat, it is deeply creamy, almost more like cheese than butter. And Manicardi...
...five training centers in the U.S. that deal with nuclear, biological and chemical threats. New Mexico concentrates on high explosives. It has another facility, a 40-sq.-mi. range in the mountains outside Socorro, which actually blows things up. There, this class watches from half a mile away as plastic explosives rip through two offices, mangling their dummy occupants. Later, a 1988 Thunderbird with 200 lbs. of ammonium nitrate in the trunk erupts in a massive geyser of flame, raining jagged steel onto the barren hills...