Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other actors are uneven, and Miss Feltenstein aparently wasn't able to cure them of bad habits such as talking through laughs, hurrying, and overplaying. Ray Healey as Mortimer's monstrous brother Jonathan is capable if monotonous; Jim Thomason as his plastic surgeon sidekick is also competent and sometimes quite good. John Lewis doesn't add much to the part of brother Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt), while Judith Anderson is strong as Elaine, Mortimer's girlfriend...
...James Hall (left) is visually unbalanced and doesn't fit into its surroundings. The Loeb (above) just sits there but then really makes it at night. Hilles Library, too, is neat in the dark but scares the people who live across Garden St. Sert's buildings look a little plastic; and his Peabody Terace is more urban than Cambridge and turns something of a cold shoulder to its environment. But his Holyoke Center really works in Harvard Square. A lot of people get quite freaked out by the Ed School's "vertical anthill" (below); but it's a personal thing...
...they scored a direct hit on the hastily built-up Dak To ammunition dump. For the next eight hours U.S. soldiers in and around Dak To cowered in their bunkers while tracer bullets arced in all directions, flares popped like fireworks and shells exploded. Seven tons of C-4 plastic explosive went off simultaneously, producing the largest blast of the Viet Nam war. A 1,000-ft. ball of fire shot upward, lighting the whole valley and billowing into a mushroom cloud. The shock wave knocked men off their feet half a mile away and all but destroyed the Special...
Gallo, a native of Toledo, Ohio, who now heads the graduate sculpture school at the University of Illinois in Urbana, achieves his effects by first sculpting his figures in clay. Then he casts them in translucent plastic. He then burns and etches in darker epoxy in the areas he wishes to color brown, leaves the rest skin colored...
...cards and checks are not legal tender, a smart crook knows that he is usually safer stealing or forging them than he is stealing or forging the real thing. In many states, lifting a credit card amounts to nothing more than lifting a penny's worth of plastic: serious crime may occur only when the issuing company is actually defrauded. The situation is much the same with traveler's checks. As a result, a man found in possession of a stolen or forged card or check may not be guilty of a serious crime unless police can prove...