Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another of Manhattan's new plastics men is Neal Small, 30, who believes that old-fashioned visible furniture is too "weighty, massive and oppressive-like having a dead whale in the living room." Small's answer is cubistic hard plastic chairs and tables, each transparent unit molded as one piece. His small rectangular tables have a surface only 13 in. by 16 in., but four of the units can be clustered to make a square coffee table or lined up in a row to make a long sideboard...
...behind the beetle-faced canvas and plastic masks, paratroopers, it is rumored, cried when they saw women carrying off screaming babies, 15-year-old boys vomiting on the side of the road, and girls clutching scarves to their faces so they wouldn't gag on the sandy...
Conventional plastic surgery to remove tattoos takes a long time and often leaves unsightly scars. But using laser beams, a team of University of Cincinnati doctors have developed a technique that literally explodes tattoo dyes out of skin, with less pain and often less scarring...
...operation would be far simpler than transplanting a heart, liver or even a kidney. But Dr. Norman emphasized that further experimentation-with dogs-must be conducted before spleen transplantation is attempted on a human being. Then, in all probability, a donor's spleen will be enclosed in a plastic bag, hooked up to a hemophiliac's circulating system and hung externally on his arm until it is certain that the method works...
...next quite a while after 1 p.m., I sat in a deep plastic leather chair in the receptionist's office, thinking how this sacred room or rock and roll so closely resembled the 11th floor of William James. Suddenly, in walked three of the Doors followed by two men who obviously were not. They hurried past and entered a room and had a meeting for 30 or 40 seconds. Only one sound came out of the room. That was Jon saying, "Listen, if you're going to put us in a battle of the bands, it'll only be with...