Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have." But after a great deal of water sloshing in buckets the crisis is resolved. Characterizations are often achieved through a single line. When Ruth speaks of herself as cultered she says, "Red wine with meat and white wine with fish," and then continues to clean the plastic slipcovers on the furniture. The parents are parodies and are played accordingly by John Burslem and Jane Bullock...
...rented a live lion (the state symbol of Bavaria) to draw attention to its exhibit. B.M.W. got more attention than it bargained for when, in full view of TV cameras, the lion bit a pretty 23-year-old model on the leg -so severely that she had to undergo plastic surgery...
Next came a coat of mail in glistening silver that let a generous amount of skin go unprotected. Then came sun visors shaped like welders' helmets and oversized plastic earrings that dangled weightlessly at shoulder level...
Clean-Cut & Brilliant. He began hitting his stride with plastic accessories. Then from sun goggles and huge choker necklaces the jewelry grew into whole dresses, until currently he buys 30,000 meter-square sheets of Rhodoid plastic a month. But production is still painstakingly slow: ten days for a short shift, 15 days for a long dress...
...required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...