Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy job. In Algeria, the S.A.O. was obviously ready to blow up the truce if it possibly could. The European quarters of Algiers and Oran, the two biggest cities, were solidly in S.A.O. hands. Algiers, with 800,000 people, resounded night and day to the thud of plastic bombs and the rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom...
...more-and their proprietors are not anxious to scrap an investment of billions of dollars overnight. And since offset eliminates some of the mechanical departments, any wholesale conversion to offset would be asking for serious labor trouble. Nor has letterpress technology stood still. Among recent developments: a new plastic plate, called Dycril. that adapts offset's photographic process to letterpress equipment...
...stereo gadgetry: > For the listener who wants to taste stereo's delights on the cheap, here is the Pioneer Stereoscope. A simple, nonelectronic stereo system that requires no amplifiers, wires or speakers, it operates like a doctor's stethoscope attached to a special phonograph tone arm by plastic tubes...
...found beauty not in the lofty mountains or endless plains but in the hectic pace of the cities and their neon gaudiness. He painted the human figure, but said that for him "the human figure has no more importance than keys or bicycles. These are for me objects of plastic value to be used as I wished." He could consciously ignore the rules of perspective: in almost all his paintings, everything happens on the surface. But if his paintings are often flat, they are never dead. Léger's bold shapes and bright colors, carefully chosen for contrast...
...hospital nurse worth her starch takes high pride in beds made with cotton sheets stretched tightly over a rubberized or plastic mattress cover, which is a tidy and sanitary practice-and one that can cause agonizing pain or even death from bedsores. Patients confined to bed in one position for long periods are almost certain to get blisters over the lower spine. Patients who develop ulcers, as sometimes happens among aged victims of broken hips...