Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Diana has done-and nobody thought of doing before-is to make dresses that switch on and off. By using pliable plastic lamps sewn into the clothes in segments and connected to a rechargeable battery pack worn on the hip, just like Batman, she has been able to produce minidresses with throbbing hearts and pulsating belly stars, as well as pants with flashing vertical side seams and horizontal bands that march up and down the legs in luminous sequence. "They're hyperdelic transsensory experiences," says Diana. Potentiometers on the battery pack allow the wearer to produce from...
...armchair's sticky plastic; places...
...paving the way for what may some day be a cashless society. But it won't be a classless society-at least in Europe. Beginning next month, a favored few will be able to flash what promises to be the most patrician card of them all: a plastic ducat bearing the famed five-arrow emblem of the House of Rothschild and the blue-and-yellow racing colors of Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild, 57, head of the Paris branch of the family and of the grande dame of French banks, Rothschild...
GUMMIDGE: Not at all. You can now use it even when addressing preschoolers. In his book Translations from the English, Robert Paul Smith offers these samples: "He shows a real ability in plastic conception." That means he can make a snake out of clay. "He's rather slow in group integration and reacts negatively to aggressive stimulus." He cries easily. And "He does seem to have developed late in large-muscle control." He falls on his head frequently...
Even if birth-control pills were economical, it would be an uphill battle to train peasant women in their regular use. These days, the government is relying instead on the cheaper intrauterine plastic loop. Though it is about the simplest and most economical contraceptive available to India, the coil-shaped device has given rise to a host of rumors, one of them a report that it gives the husband an electric shock. More than 1,000,000 women have been fitted with the loops at clinics. Another 1,780,000 Indians have voluntarily undergone sterilization (for payments of less than...