Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction crews are back at work on Harvard's indoor tennis courts, and it's a safe bet that the huge plastic-domed structure will be finished by the beginning of reading period...
...Climax was her usual totally arresting and overwhelmingly sensuous self. Suzy Dimmitt was quite electrifying as Stupefyin' Jones, making the loss of the Old Howard seem lass tragic. Evil Eye Fleagle Max Byrd threatened to steal the show everytime he appeared just by standing around with his incredibly plastic face; when he talked and threw whammies around even Mammy Yokum, superbly played by Susan Medcalf, was overwhelmed...
...chopped and channeled and has white Naugahyde bucket seats and fur-covered pedals. It is painted with 30 coats of candy-apple cherry, and is powered with a huge 301 Corvette engine with 4-four barrel carbs and a jMC 671 supercharger. The engine is also equipped with clear plastic valve covers, "so that the judges can see its guts," as one hot-rodder...
...places like Las Vegas' Riviera and $3,000 at Manhattan's Basin Street East. Her three albums have made her at present the world's best-selling female recording star on LP. But it is one thing to rival all the Patti Pages in pressed plastic and quite another to take over Broadway...
...glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny. For the sea voyage, the Vatican took out $6 million in humpty-bumpty insurance, plus another $20 million for its stay at the fair, just about enough to pay for the Vatican's embarrassment if the sculpture broke...