Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regular Payoffs. Though Pratte was known to have had a hand in almost all airline decisions, down to the choice of the plastic forks for in-flight meals, he insists that he knew nothing about Menard's actions-and the evidence supports him. Yet last month Tory M.P. MacKay documented charges that the airline had been regularly paying off Canadian travel agents' "fraudulent" commission claims. What he means is illegal kickbacks on tickets. Pratte's reluctant resignation soon followed...
However, these copies have probably reached more people than the unique works ever did. The Ben Franklin in the Fogg show has been a model for coins and postage stamps, and plastic statues of Rodin's "The Kiss" have been sold in mail-order catalogues. The purpose these sculptures serve in disseminating a knowledge of art over a large area makes up for any lack of artistic merit...
...When I was seven or so, I fixated on the idea of a tree, tall and green and smelling of pine forests. I nagged my mother about it so much that she finally went out and bought me something that was two feet high and silver and smelled of plastic. Somehow that fake tree symbolized the only kind of Christmas I was ever going to be allowed to have--second-class and phony and hypocritical. It served me right for trying to be something I wasn...
...silvery haired, distinguished man with a plastic poppy in his lapel (commemorating the end of World War I) rose to address the company. A brief "First of all I'd like to join in the general adulation over your distinguished talk" led into a series of platitudinous challenges which, the professor alleged, conflicted with Bailyn's remarks. Then, a dizzying, anglophilic puree of revisionism: "Can you really say that this was a 'revolution?' ...And when the call came to Washington to extend the revolution south of its border, to Latin America--the answer was no...So wouldn...
...Although the fire was contained in the projector, the heavy black smoke belching from the burning plastic caused a film to settle over the whole room," Wilcox said...