Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huge empty frames line the building's 4th floor hall and masterpieces wrapped in plastic are stuffed in almost every spare room. The corridors of a Fogg storage room are filled with old display cases, statuettes and a few works under consideration for acquisition, such as a Chinese stone tomb figure of the 10th century. Behind a huge, sliding metal door, guarded only by a small padlock, plastic-clothed Buddhas and glazed Chinese tomb figures occupy dusty shelves, a Japanese scroll with a painted vision of countless heavenly hordes hangs on one of the walls, and a shiny brass head...
...does allow a painting to travel for any significant distance, they might replace its glass shield with plexiglass, using a special filtering plexiglass to protect water-colors from fading in strong sunlight. The technicians would coat sculpture with a plastic varnish to protect it from scratches in transport...
...corner a bronze Etruscan mirror, probably deliberately broken in antiquity, according to Beale, awaits repair. The glue formerly used to piece it together has dried out, but the new plastic adhesives used in its place won't relinquish its hold so fast...
...tugs, the French believe, an iceberg could make the 5,000-mile journey from the bottom of the world to the Red Sea port of Jidda in six months to a year. If the mountain of ice was large enough-say 85 million tons-and wrapped in insulating plastic, it would shrink by no more than 20% along the way, providing enough water to the desert kingdom to make the venture economically feasible...
Packed in Ice. Shortly after the youth died, Shumakov transplanted one of the boy's kidneys into a Soviet recipient, and directed his team to prepare the other for shipment to New York. Carefully preserved in sterile solution and wrapped in plastic bags and ice, the kidney was placed aboard a regularly scheduled Moscow-New York Aeroflot jet, while Shumakov sent word to U.S. doctors via a Soviet friend in New York that a kidney was on the way. Rushed by ambulance from the airport, the kidney was bathed in nutrient-rich fluid, then "typed" so that doctors could...