Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALAN KAPROW dressed himself in black plastic, donned a World War I helmet, dubbed himself "The Neutron Kid," and set Southampton on its ear with a three-day Happening that included smoke bombs, sky divers and giant, helium-filled balloons. See MODERN LIVING...
...York City has a strong new law requiring walls soundproof enough to reduce any airborne noise passing through by 45 decibels. In Geneva, Switzerland, it is an offense to slam a car door too loudly. France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...himself to a crash reading program on the Dead Sea Scrolls and a shelf full of theological tomes before tackling The Ten Commandments. He has uncomplainingly walked sandalless on his flat feet up Mount Sinai, and for his role of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy jammed a plastic noodle into his nose to push it properly out of joint. He took a lengthy driver's course in the chariot for Ben-Hur, polished an English accent with a speech teacher and nightly tapings for seven weeks before Khartoum. "Just once," he admits, "I'd like...
...Learn-A-Tron." Many "instructional kits" have also come out. Biggest one is First Adventures in Learning, a $69.95 package consisting primarily of 16 thin books-each dealing with such basic concepts as sizes and shapes, time, numbers and color-and a rather flimsy Learn-A-Tron plastic testing device. Parents insert rolls of simple pictures and questions into the Learn-A-Tron, then read the questions and check the child's answers. Example: one picture shows three geometric shapes, with the underline: "Which is the triangle?" The set, now used in some Head Start programs, will be sold...
...those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture of wine, orange juice and club soda, which was ladled out of a plastic garbage...