Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corridor walls of the 32-year-old, 91-ton Budd-built first-class car. There are privacy and freedom and a sense of camaraderie aboard. Things not there seem almost as important: no seat belts, Muzak, or portentous announcements; no sardine-can seating, yowling infants, elusive nanny-stewardesses, plastic trays of plastic food. And, St. Christopher be praised, no made-for-choo-choo movies...
...hallucinations provoked by my hunger. In the evenings I would come home without having eaten and put down my sensations on paper. I went about quite a bit that year with poets because I felt that it was necessary to go a step beyond the strictly plastic and bring some poetry into painting...
...Puritan ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading Samuelson or Campbell or Marx or whoever--but reaching the end of the page she realizes that the words have slid over her eyes like soft-boiled eggs on a white plastic plate. She begins again with renewed fervor and determination. And once more, the glint of sunlight on the river, the bouncing body that jogs by, the red girl playing a congo drum with Mao plastered on its side, the frisbee that nearly breaks her nose, distract her already wavering concentration...
...must Mr. Morrow put down young women in order to praise older women? Also, Mr. Morrow neglected to mention plastic surgery as a reason for the maintenance of a youthful appearance...
...before it became a career." In Miami, hotel maids made off with her jewelry, and Bonoff, in unusual dudgeon, sought reprisal in classic rock-'n'-roll style: trashing the hotel room. "I started throwing stuff all around," she recalls, "but nothing broke. It was all made of plastic. I just gave...