Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin, which when melted in hot water becomes Flex Flesh and can be shaped in a variety of plastic molds. The skin-thin horror mug is kept in place with spirit gum and can take makeup. New York's Pressman Corp., which makes the sets, has sold some...
Mike's a pretty busy guy, but you can reach him by writing him c/o Winthrop House Superintendent. As far as looks go, I've heard more than one person say that Mike is the spitting image of Robert Redford--with plastic surgery, a bad nose job and black hair...
...humid August night last year as he was parking his car at his mother's estate in Purchase, N.Y. Later, his captors sent his father first a ransom letter then tape recordings made by Bronfman relaying impassioned pleas for payment. Eventually, the elder Bronfman took two plastic bags containing $2.3 million in cash to a deserted street in New York City's borough of Queens. A day later, police found Sam in a Brooklyn apartment, bound and gagged and guarded by Lynch...
...comes down to which side you are on," Christina Rendueles, a speaker belonging to the tenant union Hard Times, said. "Are the landlords closing off rooms because they can't pay the bill? Are they putting up plastic to keep the drafts out? No, they can afford to think about new cars and vacations in the Bahamas...
United Fruit has renamed itself United Brands, symbolizing the neutralization of its image and its power. It is getting older, weaker, and somehow more real. The banana plantations are still there, as ghostly as ever now that the banana bunches grow inside plastic bags on the trees, but they no longer exude their malevolent smell of intimidation. The local managers are smoothies instead of rednecks, and the worders are a well-off aristocracy of labor rather than serfs. The company has even gotten out of landowning, and prefers marketing and shipping...