Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyeblink to a beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart?" Or, as she adjusts the plastic welder's mask designed to protect her from flying chips and plaster: "Darling, could you hold the gun this way and shoot down the alley? Try it, sweetheart, and see if it works." The actors affectionately call her "Mother...
...Goldfarb concentrates curlously on the unlovely aspects of life, with "rancid breathing," "plastic flowers," and "alley cans." If, by technique, he made them matter, there would be no quarrel; but alass he doesn't, there are happier things to write about. Other, wiser writers, understanding that there is not enough of language for more than a part of the truth, strike nearer the heart of things...
...building by Corbusier is a work of clear genius. He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair...
...necessarily, Aerodynamicist Robert Brodsky told the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences in Manhattan last week. Spaceships, like ocean liners, said Dr. Brodsky, can carry lifeboats. When stowed on board, a Brodsky-designed lifeboat will be a cylinder of strong, heat-resistant plastic up to 1 yd. in diameter, 11 ft. long, and weighing about 1,000 lbs. Inside will be an airtight capsule large enough to hold one man lying face down. A crewman bailing out will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel...
...little spacecraft will have its own retrorocket to start its slanting down toward the atmosphere. Guidance apparatus will do most of the navigation and report to the passenger on the success of the perilous maneuver. Dr. Brodsky is confident that the plastic-faced wings can resist the heat of entry into the earth's air. As the paraglider gets deeper into the atmosphere, its speed will drop steadily. At last it will drift slowly near the earth, and the pilot, flying it like an old-fashioned glider, will be able to select a favorable spot on which to land...