Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take a movie crew, add some traffic jams and roadblocks, swirl it around with a touch of the sixties and top it off with a mound of plastic snow right outside Massachusetts Hall and what do you have? A University and a movie company that don't seem...
...diamond workers, a young Israeli named Shlomo Tal. Jaroslawicz took along his pouch of diamonds one day in September 1977, when he went to call on Tal. The young Israeli and an accomplice were found guilty of murdering and robbing the broker and stuffing his body, wrapped in plastic, into a wooden box in Tal's office...
...nearly 2-in.-thick tempered-steel bow up over the edge of the ice. The ice bends, then yields with a deep, dull, grinding mutter. Below decks, it sounds as if the Mac is bumping along over a dry bed of rocks. Down in the engine room crewmen wear plastic ear muffs to muffle noise from the cutter's ancient 2,000-h.p. diesels. As the ice field gives way, the Mac slips back and forth in a bow-to-stern rocking motion, soothing enough to make your eyelids droop...
Some of the chintziness achieves its intended comic proportions. The evil priestess ties our heroes to stakes, threatening them with sacrifice to vicious alligators. But small, adorably wiggly plastic things are tossed out on stage, and for once Sellon doesn't ruin it for himself and us--the actors respond as though these are, indeed, vicious creatures. If this attitude had prevailed, Thebes Like Us might have been the enjoyably silly evening...
...purpose of these impertinent propositions is supposed to be market research. An Ohio firm that sells animal-shaped plastic planters wondered whether sales would increase if its clerks hugged every customer...