Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threw hot coffee on a flight attendant and tried to open an emergency door was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. This fall British Airways began handing out "warning cards" to anyone getting dangerously out of control. Some airlines include a pair of plastic handcuffs as standard onboard equipment, and flight attendants on KLM and USAirways undergo training to deal with aggressive behavior...
...school whose 658 students come from some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, bears little resemblance to the traditional versions that fill most theaters at this time of year. Tchaikovsky's romantic score has been replaced by the blunt, insistent boom of a drummer pounding out rhythms on a plastic bucket. Marie, the little girl who dreams of journeying to unknown lands, has become Miesha, the knowing offspring of a single-mom family, while her godfather Drosselmeyer, though still endowed with magical powers, also plays trumpet like Miles Davis and does a mean MC Hammer imitation...
Surrounded by half-filled boxes, plastic wrap and stacks of new merchandise, Emerson certainly looks the part of a shopkeeper...
...Harold Ickes: A chain of plastic prayer beads...
...people see the show annually, making it the "most popular in the world," according to the Boston Ballet. That title is certainly a well-deserved one. Everything about The Nutcracker is a child's fantasy come true--stunning sets, divine costumes, amazing dancing, a literal ton of plastic confetti snow and 1,200 toe shoes. Well, perhaps all those toe shoes aren't part of the fantasy, but they're still a tribute to the massiveness that is this production...