Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebirth had taken place on an operating table in San Francisco's Presbyterian Medical Center just a year before. Diagnostic tests which were made by threading plastic tubes through arm veins and into Betty's heart had revealed most of nature's errors. Even so, Surgeon Frank Gerbode was in for a surprise. When he opened her chest to make connections for routing her circulation through a heart-lung machine, instead of finding two great veins returning used blood to the heart, he discovered an extra vena cava...
...best he has ever done indoors is 64 ft. 4¼ in. One reason, says Randy, is that the shots themselves are different: both weigh 16 lbs., but the outdoor shot is plain metal while the indoor shot is covered with plastic so that it won't ruin the wooden floors...
...Wearing an old Oregon football jersey with No. 70 on the back, he works out with weights for three hours (he can lift 600 lbs.) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; on alternate days he spends two hours throwing the shot in the basement of the Oregon gym, bouncing the plastic ball off a wall 55 ft. away. "And I'm forever knocking out the light bulbs in the ceiling," says Neal, "but they keep replacing them, so I keep on throwing...
...like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...
...Last week Philadelphia was host to a new drama of serious intent. As the playgoer enters the Theater of the Living Arts, he hears a soundtrack from nature as raucous and insidious as the din of city traffic. Cockatoos screech and hippopotamuses snort. Over the stage stretch tangled plastic vines. On the walls are murky film blowups of lions, elephants and monkeys. A combination of bamboo palace and automobile graveyard, the set is a raked topography of danger, containing in one scene a Daliesque montage of severed human legs...