Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the investigators began to turn up some solid clues. The FBI determined that the explosive was a high-powered plastic substance usually associated with professional terrorists. The police announced that they had found pieces of a timing device and a battery. What was more, it was disclosed that a man claiming to be the head of the F.A.L.N. called the New York police to say that his organization had committed the crime. The leads were promising, but they were still only leads. As 1976 began, the FBI and the police were still trying to pin down...
...standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope-sellers' measure. Many marijuana users are taking no chances. "Head shops" report brisk sales 'of the pocket scales ($1.50 retail) to users who want to weigh in just below the one-ounce limit...
...called dialysate or purifying fluid, which consists of a mixture of water and salts supplied from a large vat holding 25 gal. or more. Such a container was obviously too large for a portable system. So Friedman and his engineering collaborator, James Hutchisson, decided on a 5-gal. plastic container customarily used by campers and yachtsmen to carry water. Because the portable unit's pumps were smaller, they had to work faster; otherwise the dialysis would take longer than the usual five hours. Would this faster flow damage the blood's fragile red cells...
Quasi-Warhol. During the play, Allott has issued a kind of quasi-Warhol manifesto that the plastic arts are exhausted and that the truly contemporary artist must orchestrate an "event" out of the materials immediately at hand. In that light, Allott may be seen to have orchestrated the specific mood that precipitated the rape, thus fashioning his own particular happening. On another level, Allott has expressed such acid contempt of his brush-wielding anthropophagi that the rape could conceivably symbolize the crude assault that some sad creature might make on a subject that he is totally incapable of mastering, either...
...padded helmet encases my head, and four thick safety belts intersect in a bulbous metal codpiece. As my two-ton Chevy Silverado truck edges toward the starting line, all I can feel is the plastic barf bag stuffed in the pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop...