Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large genus of unpleasant plastic animals, many of whom appear to have spaceships somewhere in their genetic past. Hornetroid, for instance, the "fearsome myriapod from the far off galaxy of Thoraxid," comes equipped with folding landing gear. Then there's Terraphant, "the terrifying mammoth from the remote world of Visceros...
...casino. The flames raced along the catwalk and then swept down and back across the casino. Except for the twelve people killed in the casino, most of the deaths took place on the upper floors, when thick, black smoke mixed with poisonous gases from the casino's burning plastic decorations swirled upward through air ducts, stair wells and elevator shafts...
...further and fulfills the sinful ambition of making Julie Christie pregnant. But then came Star Wars, in which the cutely diminutive Artoo Deetoo and See Threepio help to rescue the imprisoned Princess Leia. Thus Hollywood found ways to reduce Frankenstein's heirs to figures of camp, reproducible in plastic. Inside their wired metal brains, the robots nourish greater ambitions than that...
Vellucci explained that the city ran short of packaging because donors put the clothes in plastic garbage bags...
...plastic bags all broke and made a bigger mess than the quake," he said...