Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gather beneath the portrait of Teddy Roosevelt on a rampant steed do not come in red, white and blue plastic boaters or snapping galluses that say, THERE IS A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE. They deny direct relationship with the crass election business. But they are everything to Ford's future...
...preventing office workers, as President Paul Leopold puts it, from "thinking of the copier in the same way they think of the water fountain." The company has developed a device, easily attached to any copier, that switches the machine on only when the user inserts a plastic identification card issued by his employer. The apparatus is hooked up to a computer that "reads" the cards and keeps a running tab on who has been using each copier-and for how many copies...
...young patient talks to his visitors-including his parents and a teacher who comes to help him with school-work every afternoon-through the open doorway or a transparent plastic barrier; this wall has two sleeve-and-glove arrangements that allow people to reach into the room and play checkers or cards with Teddy without contaminating him. Books, magazines and games-sterilized by steam or gases -are passed into the room through the doorway. Food, too, must be specially prepared. Even Teddy's favorite fare, pizza, is so thoroughly baked that it is practically unrecognizable...
...missing the point to call it a fake, to point out that the blood on Koloff's head came from a plastic pouch concealed in his trunks, or that the two wrestlers probably rehearsed for weeks the choreography of this championship bout. When Bruno delivers the flying drop kick or Koloff applies the Siberian sleeper hold, art and reality begin to merge, even for the Harvard cynics to my left and right...
...earlier bout, we scoffed when Baron Mikel Scicluna (a bad guy) reached elaborately into his trunks for a small peice of hard plastic (the "foreign object" as the TV announcers call it) with which to rake his opponent's neck. We recognized this as one of professional wrestling's ritual gestures, like the stunned, stylized way the wrestlers react to punches, with the dazed expression and wobbly walk they have all learned. The bad guy pleading for mercy with a fist clenched behind his back, the resounding stomp of the foot on the mat as each punch is delivered--these...