Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spoleto, and police were threatening to ban performances of the bare-breasted Sierra Leone dance troupe unless they covered "the rose of the nipple." "I don't know how to cover only the nipple," sighed Dance Director John J. Akar. He did his best with scarves and plastic roses, but the scarves fell and the petals peeled. At week's end, Akar was ready to try adhesive disks, but Menotti made his stand: "The Vatican may have fig-leafed Michelangelo, but I refuse to brassière Africa...
...ordinaire market is being transformed from a family trade into a highly mechanized industry. Blending and bottling are being automated, national-brand chains are muscling in on traditional local markets. Wine in cans, paper cartons, even greenish plastic bottles, which make the stuff look like motor oil, is being test-marketed. Distribution is still fragmented among 12,000 individual bottlers, but a shake-out of weaker firms seems assured...
...major effects. For one thing, it tends to shatter and dissolve the usual web of associations and habit patterns. A telephone, for instance, is suddenly nothing but a black plastic object of a certain shape-how outrageous and funny to see someone pick it up and talk to it as though it were a person. The boundaries that normally separate things from each other, or from oneself, may be dissolved also. This may cause the impression that one's limbs and torso are liquefying and flowing away (horror!); or that one is in such close rapport with others...
Breathing heavily and perspiring, Cernan soon saturated the atmosphere inside his space suit with more moisture than the suit's evaporator unit could handle. Moisture condensed and then froze on the cold plastic of his helmet visor, almost totally obscuring his vision. After increasing his oxygen flow in a vain attempt to clear his visor, Cernan continued to check out the AMU. But just before he was scheduled to emerge from the adapter and jet off into space, Commander Stafford reluctantly scrubbed the experiment. "No go for the AMU," he reported to Houston. "The pilot's fogged...
...earlier gesture of verisimilitude, he once stacked 400 empty oil drums wall to wall and 13 feet high in a Left Bank street in Paris. He also likes to bundle up motorcycles, trees, other people's statues and live nudes in plastic wrapping, then tie them securely with rope. Their title: Packages...