Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorcade wound slowly through the streets, two brothers, aged 24 and 22, dashed out and dumped two plastic bags full of red and green paint over the windshield and top of the President's limousine. While Australian police hauled the men away, paint-spattered Secret Service Agent Lem Johns, who was unsure of what was happening, shouted to the President's driver, "Go...go...go...!" When the car drew up at Melbourne's Government House, the Johnsons emerged undaunted and undaubed (all the windows had been closed). "Well," cracked Lyndon, "we got a colorful reception...
...visiting doctor at the A.M.A. meeting had just had a little blood drawn from his arm. He watched while a technician dropped the specimen into the machine. Within a minute, he saw pastel-colored samples of his diluted serum being pumped through a dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then...
...already all too familiar. Mrs. Hochhausler, mother of nine, was the fourth middle-aged woman to die in similar fashion in the same seemingly safe suburban surroundings. Last Dec. 2, Mrs. Emogene D. Harringon, 56, wife of a University of Cincinnati professor, was strangled with a length of knotted plastic clothesline in the basement of her apartment building; she was raped. On April 3, Mrs. Lois Dant, 58, was bludgeoned, strangled with her own stocking, and raped in the living room of her first-floor apartment. On June 10, Mrs. Jeanette M. Messer, 60, a widow, was beaten, strangled with...
...bolts, pistols, pocket knives, karate instruction and watchdogs was unprecedented. One ad to sell three German shepherds brought 75 phone calls in two hours. Newspapers have run police-prepared instructions on how women should defend themselves by biting, kicking, screaming or scratching. A grocery chain imported 100,000 plastic whistles to give to its customers. Deliverymen have set up complex systems of passwords with hundreds of housewives who feel as if they are under siege...
...poems of William Ferguson's don't do total justice to the man, but give an enticing taste of what will follow in the next issue, when BR will reprint a mass of his work. Ferguson combines a plastic imagination with an infallible ear; these poems show him condensed into a dense, luminous symbolic vocabulary -- a set of difficult hieroglyphs. After all, it takes more than devotion to know that "an ivory place, where needles thick as mirrors drank to excess" represents a hospital, or that "a foot with a thousand hands" is a pine-tree. His choice of quiet...