Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heart disease has a way of upping the ante: the future always needs tending. After two bypasses my heart will not take a third--too dangerous for a surgeon to work with all the rubbery scar tissue on the heart, like so much plastic in his hands. With an ejection fraction of 31% (the ejection fraction is the percentage of blood expelled, with each heartbeat, from the left ventricle; normal is 50% or more), with venous grafts to the left anterior descending artery and with the right coronary artery totally occluded, I have pretty much exhausted the surgical techniques available...
...awful odor fills the studio. By the end of the shoot, the model, half cooked by the lights, sits rotten and decomposed in the suitcase. Lesson: when the job calls for a salmon sitting in luggage, a photographer needs a model with very little personality: a model made of plastic...
Fake sushi, plastic baguettes and phony pharmaceuticals clutter Thomas Trengove's studio on 247 West 30th St in New York City. In the 1970s, the maker of fakes began his career constructing acrylic furniture in the city's photo district. "Living and working there, I became exposed to the needs and the gaps in the photo business. We got requests from some of our furniture contacts to do props and I realized that this was something I was equipped to do." By 1980 he began his foray into the props industry...
...Boston's newest emags, Stuff@night, is throwing its first anniversary party. The ads say, "All of Boston's Kens and Barbies are invited to a fabu Hollywood Extravaganza." Bonus points awarded for plastic hair, driving up in pink Mattel sedan and use of wanna-be Californian slang? 10:30 p.m., Avalon, 15 Lansdowne...
Considering I've had eight nose jobs, three face-lifts and one liposuction I am all for plastic surgery. It is a (practically) painless procedure in exchange for years of beauty. I know that you want to believe that people should want YOU, not your physical appearance, but let's be realistic-the 1990s are all about looks and I think the next decade will be even worse. Just because you get a nose job does not mean that your personality will change--it just means that you will be more confident and popular. Everybody underestimates the importance of popularity...