Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week. Ross, who is now appearing on the screen as the star of Mahogany, appeared on the stage of the New Victoria Theater with a 30-piece orchestra, three dancers and a back-up singing group. "She looked lovely, moved beautifully, but sang with only a two-dimensional plastic perfection," carped the Guardian. Said the critic from the Daily Mirror: "The lady has no depth." Maybe not, but audiences bought up every ticket for the singer's three-day London engagement, and six more concerts have been added at the completion of her 19-city European tour. Even...
...laughing at Strawberries record shop on Boylston Street on January 9 at noon. She has come to promote her new album Horses and sign autographs. Strawberries is hip. Somebody at the store has made an altar of Black Ken dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...
...picture of slim men sipping cocktails under palms) and then even asked her to dance, and been snubbed. And they had carried all that out with them when they left, ditching only their butts, sweat and lashes. All that went out at 3:30 a.m. in great beige plastic bags. The beer, which by 4 had made its way out of the bags, dripped down five floors oblivious of the stairs, and puddled malodorously at the bottom. None of us--at the "top of the K"--felt any more satisfied...
...THEN that the party was punctured, and like a great and windy balloon began to lose air fast and sink sloppily back to earth. With loose farts our party sagged and emptied until it was ready to be packed away in the brown plastic bags that Bruce and I had readied. The only people who were left collected in the mellow room, and the late-nighters who would keep it up past the dawn and had only then arrived jammed armchairs with gossip and marijuana before passing on. Sixteen point seven per cent of the Shalimar Six left at nearly...
...crisp white carnations and crowds of blue irises the color of twilight--are gone. The bare walls have emerged from behind them, triumphant. Heavy and silent, they tolerate the denim-bedecked transient dancers and ache from their loud stream of music. The smaller inanimate objects--little glass tables, sculptured plastic chairs, ashtrays that bear no name--huddle in groups, almost afraid: their conspiracy against the walls is over. 15 Lansdowne Street is waiting to become a warehouse again...