Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind of Bauhaus elegance mit wit (it costs $30 to make...
...year's end to sell at up to $40 a set. And the Scrabble Crossword Game, thought to be a children's diversion only by those who have not been thrashed by a ZYGOTE-wielding expert, sells briskly in seven languages, at $19 for the plastic-coated board with turntable base, and supports a bimonthly newspaper and some 55 clubs across the nation. Fans of new board games called Lie Cheat & Steal and Seduction (sample hazard: "Remove an article of clothing and stimulate the person you are pursuing") so far have not formed leagues...
There has also been an explosion of home vegetable and herb gardening in suburbs, city lots, and even in apartment closets equipped with growing lights and terrariums. While the average consumer was once largely limited to buying vegetables and fruits that are treated in gas chambers and plastic-packed to evade the curious nose and probing finger, farmers' markets and small vegetable stands are sprouting like mung beans ? which they also sell. In most big cities, there are at least a dozen cheese stores and several p?tisseries and charcuteries, where none existed a few years...
...Bernard Simon, 65, chief of plastic surgery at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, came into the kitchen after a long illness. In order to prepare low-cholesterol foods that would not tax his damaged heart, he studied Chinese and Italian cuisine. But he soon found other reasons to cook. "At this point in my life," he says, "I would rather give than take. I find cooking a very gracious, warm and nurturing kind of thing to offer people...
Cuisinart CFP-5A ($225) and CFP9 ($160). The French machine that popularized all processors. Little difference between the two models, except that the more expensive version has a steel base (v. plastic for the cheaper one) and is a little faster. Compact, versatile, durable...