Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whenever she was around her husband, she seemed to revert to the old "me"-plastic Pat, with the frozen appearance and forced speech. "Maybe she should carry a wind machine around to tousle her hair," says Helene Drown, a longtime California friend who grows impatient with people who do not realize how warm and lively...
...image of the plastic Pat may be frozen into the public mind for all time now. The last sustained view of her was at the White House, while her husband bade farewell to his staff. For a moment, tears glistened in her eyes and she bit her lip to hold them back; then her incredible self-discipline reasserted itself. After that she disappeared into the house at San Clemente and Into the solitude that has so often been part of her life as a politician's wife...
Explicit Suggestion. The Butte, Mont., high school marching band was on hand to honor Knievel, a native son. The pretty drum majorettes were immediately harassed by shirtless bikers, one of whom grabbed a majorette's breasts and explicitly suggested further contact. The girl retained her fixed plastic smile, but her eyes bulged in terror. "Lord, get that band moving!" a security officer shouted, and the band marched into the fenced enclosure tootling "Off we go into the wild blue yonder...
With the stubby fins and tail of a World War II blimp, the 175-ft.-long aerostat has proved to have extraordinary stability; Hurricane Gilda's 100-m.p.h. winds last year barely nudged it. The helium inside the balloon's tough, eight-layer plastic skin provides enough lift to allow up to 4,000 lbs. of electronic gear to be packed into the gondola hanging from its underside. The equipment can receive and rebroadcast as many as four television channels, two commercial radio stations and the data from 5,000 to 10,000 microwave circuits. At present...
...their off-camera sides, however, Bruce's right and left look more like cutaway drawings of an old Messerschmitt 109. Each has a 25-ft. spine of tubular and spring steel, painted a decidedly unsharklike yellow, and 50 bright green, double-jointed ribs, housing some 500 ft. of plastic tubing, 25 remote-controlled valves and 20 electric and pneumatic hoses...