Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets them to dancing, singing, acting or mimicking one another. She convinced Actress Jill St. John that she was Dinah Shore and launched her into a reedy rendition of See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet. At Hypnoteuse Collins' suggestion, Lloyd Bridges went swimming through the audience with a plastic lung on his back. She suggested to Steve Allen that he was viewing one of the saddest movies ever filmed-and watched with approval while her subject dissolved soggily into tears. In one more practical demonstration of her art, she cut Pitcher Sandy Koufax down from one and a half...
...borrowed loft. They are painfully in love and hopelessly beat. Brian is writing a book called Get Ready to Crawl. "I don't care who reads it," says Brian. "I just care what it says." Genie is a dancer. She practices on the roof with a plastic geranium for inspiration...
...Simpson imprisoned a queen in a wire-screen cage with double walls. He put the cage near a cluster of worried, queenless bees. The workers responded joyously. They swarmed all over the cage, vibrating their wings. But when Simpson imprisoned a queen in a small, transparent plastic bag, she had no effect on the other bees. They could see and hear her, but they ignored her completely...
...with 19 servants at his call, does nothing for himself; he will not even buy his own clothes. While his hotels like to proclaim their appeal to gourmets, Hilton is indifferent to fancy food, preferring to dine on corned beef hash, tuna-fish casserole and tea served in plastic cups ("It's more sanitary."). Though his hotels pride themselves on the original works of art they hang in lobbies and guest rooms (the New York Hilton has 8,500 specially commissioned works), one of the least appreciative viewers is Conrad Hilton. "He wouldn't know a Rubens from...
...Soaky"-several pennies worth of bubble bath in a cartoon-character plastic toy container, retailing altogether for 690. "Kids wield a lot of influence in the choice of a toothpaste," adds an executive of Lever Bros., whose Stripe appeals to the whole household through the children's interest in color and flavor...