Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misty drizzle, the gleaming forest of black umbrellas and red, blue and yellow banners moved down Tokyo's neon-lit Ginza. "Down with the Sato government!" bellowed the Zengakuren students, Socialist Party workers and Sohyo union members, as they marched past hordes of riot cops in blue plastic helmets with Plexiglas face shields. Then the drizzle gave way to a pelting downpour, and what had been billed as the boldest anti-government "demo" in five years sputtered out like a drenched fuse...
...traffic. But recent visitors have noted that Vladimir Ilyich himself has not been looking his best. "He has his good days and his bad days," says an old Moscow hand. "I'm convinced they take him out now and then and do something to him. He looks pretty plastic in places." Indeed, some Kremlinologists believe that the figure in the tomb is not Lenin but a wax facsimile, and to the casual eye the face and hands look very much like old wax into which someone has inserted hair. Then again, there are very few 41-year-old corpses...
...goat and the cat intervene to keep him from doing so. David Moran portrayed the cock, relying entirely on his dancing. Wesley Skinner looked like a goat, although his movements were not as successful as Moran's. Paul Magloff--the crafty, drooling "Renard"--used both his elastic body and plastic face to achieve the work's most impressive performance. The four solo vocalists sang expressivley and tunefully, though Thomas Weber and Gregory Sandow enunciated poorly...
...cricket, tennis and rugby teams. (Noted his school magazine: "Good on attack, but does not always time his passes well.") An R.A.F. fighter pilot during the war, he was shot down on a strafing mission over North Africa, escaped with a broken leg and a badly mutilated face. After plastic surgery in Cairo, he emerged with a drooping right eyelid, an immobile expression, and a brand-new face that the surgeon might almost have copied from pictures of Gary Cooper...
...midafternoon, carpenters had installed plastic coverings over all but one of the broken windows and started installing temporary doors: maintanance men had restored heat: and the fire alarms were working again