Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alfred Manessier and Jean Bazaine, who had in the past drawn much of their visual language from Chartres's windows and had worked in stained glass themselves. The Viacryl coating, they charged, had ruined the transmission of light through the windows, shifted the color balance and, with its plastic gloss, canceled the irregular luminosity of the hand-cast glass. "I know what I see," says Bazaine. "Those windows, they were living. I have been looking at them for the past 50 years. Now they have no heart. Once they had depth and modulation; now they are flat...
...European courts in which the action takes place were all constructed in Cinecitta ("movie city") just outside of Rome. In one sequence, Casanova rows a boat across the Venetian lagoon in a thunderstorm; he holds no oars, sits in no boat, and the wildly surging waves are obviously green plastic. The stock sound of water-in-a-storm fills the air... or is it the sound of plastic bags in a gale? Nature blurs into artifice. Casanova is first seen costumed for a masque--but he never takes off the fanciful white undergarments of that scene, or changes his doll...
...days and some are kept a year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, the army's top burn expert, the plastic surgery in some cases is sheer artistry...
Though prompt application of new flexible splints and pressure bandages lessens scars and skin contractures, burn victims are often left with disfiguring features that even the best plastic surgeons cannot eliminate. Says In-Service Education Director Carol Fulton of Boston Shriners: "They don't go home like Cinderella and live happily ever after." To prepare patients for re-entry into the outside world, many burn centers have added psychiatrists, psychologists and other therapists to their staffs...
...reasons, some officials would like burn treatment kept part of the regular acute-care facilities of hospitals. Burn specialists disagree. They argue that burn centers not only provide patients with a level of treatment unavailable anywhere else but also make economic sense. Insists Dr. John Converse, head of reconstructive plastic surgery at N.Y.U. Medical Center: "Good burn centers eventually save money." Why? Because, he says, "you may have a functioning, working taxpayer instead of a cripple...