Word: plasticity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ALFONSO OSSORIO-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th St. Twenty-nine panels on which seashells, fake pearls, links of rusty chain, hunks of bone (with glass eyes staring from the marrow), shards of mirrors, jaw teeth, driftwood and other flotsam have become mired in puddles of plastic glue. Gaudy, repetitious and faintly emetic. Through...
...Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor and pump are so delicate that they are capable of spreading this supply over a week, delivering it via a plastic tube pushed through a small incision into an artery or vein. Patients with cancers...
...plastic bomb wrecked one butcher's establishment. Frenzied housewives turned in desperation to pork and horsemeat, even frozen U.S. chickens. At last, the butchers relented, but their reopened shops had only a few days' beef supply and the threat to Paris kitchens remained. Cried Charles Leonard, chairman of the Paris butchers' syndicate: "We are no longer under the Occupation. The Germans have left. Butchers, I am proud...
...shock wave of horror raced through Saigon last week. In a small park inside Saigon's main traffic circle, a young Buddhist priest at noon squatted cross-legged in the traditional lotus position, pulled a plastic container of gasoline out of his cloth bag and soaked his lap. Then he struck a match to his brown robes. Flames burst over him. Grimacing but uttering no sound, the monk shriveled into a charred skeleton. After three minutes, his arms stiffened before him, and he pitched over. It was the sixth suicide by fire in the Buddhist struggle against President...
...forceful, two-story post-and-beam structure, with walls of diagonal redwood siding, brings space and plastic interest to what would otherwise be that modern cliche, the box house. The J. H. Pomeroy Co. is selling the house at its Tahoe Keys development at Lake Tahoe, Calif., for approximately $45,000 with...