Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each as they passed into the darkened entrance. The narrow tunnel led down to an old moving van buried six feet under the ground as part of a landfill project after World War II; it was 25 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, 6 ft. high, and had two white plastic ventilation pipes coming out of its sides and up to the ground. The prisoners found the subterranean chamber had been stocked with mattresses, bedspreads, Cheerios, potato chips and water...
...great American doll is still gleaming her plastic smile from the back seat, inadequately dressed for the crosscountry trek. Why not give her sensible clothes, a protective helmet for her head, her own motorcycle and that wide-open highway...
...double, to the Abbey Victoria at $30 to $33. Early on in the primary season, Carter's forces had been booked into the City Squire Inn. When Carter became the assured winner, his workers demanded-and got-250 rooms in the much larger Americana, a flashy plastic version of Miami Beach set down on Seventh Avenue. Carter and Wife Rosalynn were assigned a five-room suite with a canopied bed on the 21st floor...
...among the six largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then they seem to be driven by surly crackpots exploring new frontiers in rudeness and reckless endangerment. New York cabbies also include some of the funniest, most charming characters around. (Advice to delegates: If possible, look for the oversize Checker cabs or the radio-dispatched fleet...
...public Pat Nixon projected a stiff, almost plastic image-one that served well to conceal her inner anguish. Intimates say it also obscured a warmth and liveliness enjoyed only by those who knew her offstage. Yet her ordeal was obviously great as her husband, in the twilight of his presidency, lied to the public-and apparently even to his family-about the Watergate cover-up and was forced out of office. Most humiliating in more recent days was the Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein description of a cold Nixon marriage, her consideration of divorce in 1962, her seeking solace in drink...