Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assuming a shooter's crouch about 35 ft. from John Paul's bulletproof car, brandished what looked like a handgun. An alert policeman fired one shot into the roadway in front of the man, who threw his "weapon" to the ground; it proved to be a plastic toy. The man raised his arms with fists clenched before he was hustled away...
...drawing to its long-prayed-for close on Manhattan's West 53rd Street. The sculpture garden was a wilderness. White birches, still in transplantation shock, were leafing out but not in time; stacks of unset paving stones lay everywhere, amid mounds of builders' sand and the plastic-swaddled silhouettes of old friends: Rodin's Balzac, the art nouveau subway entrance, a giant Claes Oldenburg mouse. All through April the museum's governing triumvirate, consisting of its director, Richard Oldenburg, its chairman, William S. Paley of CBS, and its president, Blanchette Rockefeller, had been escorting pods...
...polar climes of North House having proven too chilly for them, 88 plastic penguins yesterday took the shuttle bus south to the Yard...
...seems the place to be if you're a plastic penguin--or chicken, or duck, for that matter--is a lawn. Den Featherstone of Union Products, Inc., in Leominster, which made the penguins, said yesterday that large orders of birds are common...
...spiritual as in his photographs. In their purity and precision, their balance of epic vistas and exquisite detail, Ansel Adams' photographs celebrated an ideal vision of nature and the American West. That black-and-white vision was of a landscape unsullied by neon and Day-Glo plastic, a majestic continent that still seemed for all the world like a new-found land. Passionate about art and nature, Adams tolerated the desecration of neither. At his death from heart disease last week near his home in Carmel, Calif., Adams, 82, the bearded and bespectacled photographer who composed his pictures first...