Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face in "Scraps." Anna Medvedovsky '99 plays the Patchwork Girl of Oz, an unhappy housewife who escapes mundanity by dressing up like her favorite character from the Oz books, while Chris Sahm '01 plays an old woman who'd like nothing better than to live among the clean peaceful plastic in her favorite McDonald...
Allen seems to achieve some personal vengeance through this film as well. Robin, at the insistence of her best friend, goes to Dr. Lupus, a corpulent celebrity plastic surgeon. Dr. Lupus has plenty of suggestions for Robin, asking her, "Why should you be anything less than perfect?" Robin looks disarmingly like Mia Farrow, with wavy hair and a disheveled Cantabrigian fashion sense. Things aren't looking too good for Robin; she has just been dumped (not for her daughter, though), and she can't quite seem to figure out how to attend cocktail parties and remain sober for more than...
...gone to sculpt and alter their own identities, with examples such as the market for professionally written term papers, a retirement community in Florida designed to offer its residents a 24/7 Disney World experience, celebrity quick-change artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson and a woman who underwent 20 plastic surgeries to remake herself in the image of a Barbie doll. He points out the difference between the "inner-directed" character valued in America's past--composed of personal qualities and goals inspired by one's upbringing--and today's "other-directed" character, in which a person attains value through...
POLARTEC The fabric of the '90s, even though it was introduced in 1981. Made by Malden Mills, the synthetic fabric (some material is even made partly out of recycled plastic bottles) is light, cozy, rugged and water and wind resistant. First worn by serious outdoor athletes, it is now used in all kinds of clothing...
BAKELITE Leo Baekeland was hoping to create a synthetic shellac when he mixed together carbolic acid and formaldehyde in his Yonkers, N.Y., lab in 1907. Instead he created the first totally synthetic plastic-phenolic resin and changed the world. Some mistake...