Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightclub act 'The Factory Murderer's Daughter.' Fassbinder is intrigued by rituals, by those things which make life most banal and predictable. Mother Kusters is forever either stirring a red pot on the stove or, because the West German "economic miracle" has happened, she is snapping electric sockets into plastic holders at the kitchen table...
...falling drastically," he said; since World War II the U.S. has "displaced labor with energy that runs machines that capital has bought" and done social damage in the process. For example, the petrochemical industry, he charged, produces goods that replace natural products and often have only marginal social,benefit. Plastic for heart valves, he said, is a socially valuable product; swizzle sticks...
...Point stands for "Graves Registration." These soldiers are the garbage men of combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand...
...dancers do their plies at the bar, but one of the New York City Ballet's principal dancers also practices hers in the pool. In the Water Beauty Book (St. Martin's Press; $10), Allegro Kent, 39, demonstrates how she keeps in shape with aquatic acrobatics, using plastic water wings. "I try to undulate like a sea anemone with them," she says. "When I wear them, I feel that I'm in a different world. It's kind of like floating around in outer space, only wetter...
...BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE are useless but always around. Promoters place plastic images throughout the media, tantalizing Mary Q. Housewife with visions of grandeur. Mary Q., with her rollers and middle-aged paunch, joins with the rest of her family in supporting the beautiful people by buying their records, watching their shows and imitating their styles...