Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pizzetti, had its world premiere at Milan's La Scala. Musically, the work was something of a dud-somber, repetitive, unnecessarily difficult to sing. But as exciting theater, the bloodthirsty Agamemnon legend is hard to beat, and Wallmann did not try: instead she moved her chorus in a plastic combination of Greek tragedy and modern ballet, guided Star Soprano Clara Petrella in a performance of icy majesty, and won unanimous critical acclaim for what Milan's Corriere d'Informazione called "a stupendous visual WESTRICH spectacle, austere, but graced with Wallmann's customary taste and knowledge...
...long, 156 in. in diameter, paced with 800,000 Ibs. of ammonium perchlorate and powdered aluminum held together with synthetic rubber. This potent stuff is cured in a single carefully shaped "grain" with a star-shaped cavity and burns from the inside out. The nozzle is made of plastic, spun silica and fibrous graphite...
...device on display at the Linden, N.J., laboratory of Esso Research & Engineering Co. looked like nothing more than an outsize storage battery draped with a tangle of plastic tubes.Like a battery, it was an entirely self-contained source of electricity, but it was far more than that. Esso's new fuel cell comes remarkably close to the achievement of a chemical engineer's dream: the use of a cheap fuel to pro duce practical amounts of electric cur rent without the aid of expensive engines or generators...
...Right Pocks. In this new wave of wax museums, the figures are not really made of wax but of a plastic called vinyl plestisol, which, in addition to being fireproof, does not have the glossy sheen that tends to make wax figures look like wax figures. In charge of creating them is Earl Dorfman, 48, who used to do department-store window displays...
...roared flight after flight of bomb-laden U.S. jets to strike at the increasingly aggressive Communist Viet Cong in the country's besieged northern reaches. Out of Saigon's airport far to the south soared Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, bound for exile with his family, carrying two plastic bags full of Vietnamese earth, the Grand Cross of the National Order, and the ruins of a year in power...