Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your credit-card mess?" Featherless had been despondent the last time I saw him, because Visa, MasterCard and American Express had taken away his plastic money. "I've been declared a cardless person," he had said then, pouring ashes from his backyard grill on his head. "I'm a man without a card." He had the haunted look of a traveler condemned to shuttle reservationless between Marriott and Holiday Inn, with no Magic Fingers to strum his backbone...
...with figures at a table, in homage to Cézanne's Cardplayers, but the image mutated into still life, leaving the drinkers' legs fossilized, as it were, in the sloping table legs. The great brown half-moon of the tabletop, the bread loaves and fruit and napkin have a plastic intensity that makes one feel ready to pluck them away...
...sexual signs. It is a hieroglyph for arousal, tumescence in paint. Yet it is something more. For in these images of Marie-Thérèse, Picasso demonstrated his power to materialize his sensations. The body is not merely a sign, but a direct translation of desire into plastic terms, and that is what graffitists cannot...
...chartered airliners arrived from Key West, the weary refugees streamed off with an empty look in their eyes. They carried all the belongings they owned, stuffed in plastic bags and pillowcases. Some shied away from the military trucks and soldiers at first; they had been told back home that they would be mistreated in the U.S. But when a smiling airman in an Air Force van tossed out bags each containing a sandwich, a hardboiled egg, a carton of milk and an apple, the newcomers were delighted. Some of the children had never seen an apple before...
Hexagonal kites, hang gliders and children's plastic Hi-Fliers dominated the skies Saturday and left mounds of tangled twine in their wake during the 12th annual Great Boston Kite Festival on Roxbury's Franklin Park Golf Course...