Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some stock from a shareholder in the society that had run the fair since its founding. Once in control, the flamboyant Leahy rejuvenated the event, paving walkways, bringing in rides, building a model New England village with wooden fronts bought from the Grand Central railway, placing hundreds of gargantuan plastic animals and figures around the fairground. It was a unique blend of 4-H club, carnival and circus...
Outside the simple sheep barn, a few visitors take their last look at Leahy's New England village, set behind a large pond. Others crane at the 40-ft.-tall plastic man or gaze fondly over the fairground. Some vendors wear black armbands, but it is a futile gesture of mourning. Buying their last baked potato with sour cream and bacon, taking their last aim at ducks in the gallery shoot, or sizing up a young heifer, most visitors seem oblivious or indifferent to the fact that they are among the last to attend the Great Danbury State Fair...
Behind a bulletproof plastic shield, like travelers in a time machine, a jubilant Ronald Reagan and his guest, French President François Mitterrand, watched the Bicentennial celebration of a transatlantic partnership that brought independence to the 13 colonies. "The surrender at Yorktown," Reagan told the crowd of 60,000 (one of whom presented him with a reproduction of a Revolutionary sword), "was a victory for the right of self-determination. It was and is the affirmation that freedom will eventually triumph over tyranny." His Socialist French counterpart, however, had a more pointedly contemporary interpretation of the celebration. Said Mitterrand...
...many of them, treatment is almost as dread as the disease: a mastectomy, which can be both physically and psychologically mutilating. But in recent years, plastic surgeons have devised a number of techniques for reconstructing breasts that reduce the aesthetic and emotional toll...
...tank "escape temporarily from the adversary's sight and prevent the latter from adjusting his fire"; a 105-mm antitank rocket launcher is "designed for use by either a right-or a left-handed soldier." The French grant far more space to the nitty-gritty of war: pistols, plastic explosives and grenades (including one that was "designed to dazzle several antagonists...