Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention and the delegates are excited: waving flags, crying "hear! hear!", reveling in a pale imitation of the pageantry of a real national convention. 'Register Kissinger not Firearms,' 'The Rock Owns a Piece of Me,' and 'Don't Re-elect Anybody' bumper stickers; dead-babies' ingarbage-cans armbands; plastic gold noose lapel pins (for 'Public Officials convicted for treason'); pistol tie clips...
They had toted along bread and an assortment of glass and plastic bottles for drink. The water on board was rancid, and the bottles needed refilling. As we pulled into a station, the woman urged her husband, "Hail someone outside, they won't refuse." Nervously, he wedged his shoulders over the pane and called "Eh, Compatriot...
...year and seeing some rather unwieldy-looking strings of lights suspended across Mass Ave. That was Chuck Smith's idea. Only it didn't work out too well. Smith says: "We had an idea for Christmas decorations which would be dramatic, economical and exciting." Instead of buying the typical plastic wreaths and polyurethane Santas, Smith hatched a plan that called for the participation of Cambridge residents in fabricating and installing decorations; it would save money, it would draw people into the Square, and it would look nice...
...that is eroding our country." Supporters of Conlan wrote letters asking some 800 clergymen to persuade church members to vote for him because "it sure would be nice to have a man with a clear testimony for Jesus Christ representing Arizona and America." Steiger called his opponent a "total plastic politician" and a "dangerous man" who had been "bought and paid for" by a race-track operator who reputedly has Mafia ties. Replied Conlan: "Dirty gutter politics...
...first came to the art world's attention in the late '50s and early '60s by swathing all manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars, women, motorcycles and, in 1968 at "Documenta" in Kassel, West Germany, a 280-ft. column of air-with rope, canvas and sheet plastic. If this all amounted to little more than a series of energetic variations on Man Ray's 1920 Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (a sewing machine wrapped and tied in sackcloth and rope), it gave Christo the base for more grandiose and original schemes. In 1969 he went to Australia...