Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Electric has invested $38 million to modernize an outdated dishwasher factory. Central computer panels, sometimes monitored by just one person, check the full range of production and part supplies. The manufacturing process is carried out with a precision that cuts down on waste of materials like sheet steel, plastic and rubber hose. Controls can be quickly reprogrammed to make any of 15 dishwasher models...
...every piece, Memphis impudently employs the twin taboos of modernism: pattern and ornament. Many are covered with vividly hued plastic laminate or sport metallic-threaded fabrics, and some are decorated with colored light bulbs. Los Angeles Designer Peter Shire's ironing-board-shaped table, Brazil, is finished in sea green, pink and yellow lacquer. It could serve as an animated cartoon prop, the perfect background for Tom and Jerry. Memphis Founder Ettore Sottsass Jr. has gone further. His Park Lane'coffee table is strictly from Oz: a giant black marble aspirin resting on delicate emerald green feet...
...acclaimed leader of the spare and sensuous new style in the 1960s, creating innovative and clean-lined office furniture and machinery for Olivetti, a task he still performs. But influenced by the Pop painting of Roy Lichtenstein, rock music and Indian mysticism, he surprised colleagues with Olivetti's plastic Valentine portable typewriter. He later did a table and stools called Mickey Mouse, and designed a disco outside Beirut. The restless maestro explains his professional schizophrenia in typically surreal terms: "If you see a girl in a bathing suit in the morning and an evening dress at night...
First came the green card. Introduced by American Express in 1958, the sliver of plastic quickly became a status symbol. Later the Gold Card, brought out in 1966, took over as the first-class way to pay. Now American Express is about to play its most exclusive card: platinum. Said a company spokesman: "This will raise the prestige level to new heights...
Misunderstandings like this can be compounded by the gutter press (MICHAEL JACKSON?MORE OF HIS INTIMATE SECRETS; MICHAEL'S AGONIZING TUG OF LOVE) and by the putative inside-track show-biz gossip. Jackson wants a sex-change operation; Jackson has gone under the knife for extensive plastic surgery; Jackson has been shot full of female hormones to keep his face pretty and his voice soaring high. "Not true," says Riggs. "I'm his voice teacher, and I'd know. He started out with a high voice, and I've taken it even higher. He can sing low?down...