Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn: "I don't care if it rains or freezes/long as I got my plastic Jesus/sitting on the dashboard...
...assist from the psychedelic sector, the Pentagon and environs last week looked nightmarish indeed. Workers had to use steam to scrub the steps and walls leading to the entrance of the Mall-and even that failed to erase the graffiti that demonstrators had smeared on with ineradicable black plastic paint. Some of the protesters-who numbered 30,000 to 35,000 according to a Naval Air Intelligence count-left more personal souvenirs on the Mall. "You should see what we found out there," said one worker. "Nothing but bras and panties. You never saw so many." The only damage...
...team of 16 doctors who had been standing by for 48 hours quickly readied two other patients for kidney transplants. First they removed the diseased kidneys of a 16-year-old Manhattan boy and kept him anesthetized on the operating table, the incision in his groin covered with a plastic drape. At the same time, they gave presurgery sedatives to a 48-year-old New Jersey housewife who had lost both kidneys to nephritis three months ago. At 5 a.m., the brain-disease victim died; surgeons quickly removed his kidneys, rushed one to each of the operating rooms...
...Paris, who appropriated the name of the most distant starlike bodies in the universe to distinguish himself from his better-known wife Emmanuelle, who is a pretty far-out designer of women's clothes. Quasar's furniture also uses just two components: pillows and a hard plastic frame shaped like a squashed three-dimensional U that, standing up, serves as a chair, on its side can be used as a see-through table. "Transparency is the criterion of our age," proclaims Quasar, but like other see-through inflatables, his furniture can be filled with water colored...
...their work. Still more newsworthy is the display of the seven examples of Japanese sculpture, which show that Nippon's advanced technology and freedom from European tradition have produced some sculptors with slates as clean as any in the U.S. The Port, an internally lit blue and transparent plastic piece by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and the giant slab of plastic Swiss cheese called Blue Dots by Noriyasu Fukushima have the same cleanness as Robert Morris' silvery series of knife-edged I-beams and Donald Judd's turquoise modular grids. All four works convey a feeling of openness...