Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between Manhattan's West 90th and 91st Streets, bordered by a new, mediocre low-income housing project and a high-income boys' school, Nivola said, "There is a desolation and barrenness to these buildings. I wanted to relieve that, to introduce a friendly atmosphere in plastic form...
...spells adventure: thinking big, feeling big, painting big." Hendy attributes his museum's sudden jump of 26,000 in attendance chiefly to the new Cézanne. However proud, he is taking no chances. The controversial Bathers hangs alone in a guarded room, protected by a bulletproof Perspex plastic screen...
Designer André Courrèges, by contrast, showed a collection that was more like a countdown, with models' hair cropped to the cranium, their faces often masked behind huge white plastic goggles, and a display of far-out fashions that swung down the runways to the way-in beat of progressive jazz. As befits the designer who is known as the idea man of the Paris collections, Courrèges came through with eye-poppers aplenty-flesh-colored leotards beneath embroidered net slacks, ten-gallon hats, skirts cut three inches above the knee-gimmicky, but none of them...
...skis today are laminated and the best combination in wooden skis is hickery with ash; flexibility is determined by the ratio of the two. In the lower price ranges ash is mainly used. The ski should have a durable plastic base, preferably "Kofix" or "P-Tex" which are polyethylene bottoms, require very little waxing and are easy to repair. Steel edges should be interlocking and slightly offset at tips and ends of the ski. The top should have a plastic cover or lacquer and plastic top edges...
...best safeguards against snow blindness for the skier planning any length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful untraviolet rays. For safety sake, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grazes a tree limb on a downhill...