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Word: plasticizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lowell House and many of the other houses use virtually nothing but glasses and plastic coffee cups. Why can't all of the houses and the Union do the same? If it costs more money to use glass. even accounting for the fact that dinng halls would no longer be buying hundreds of cups per day, wouldn't this act of conservation be as worthy of University funding as many of the activities the University supports? Sarah K. Highland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cups: A Plea | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...largest selections anywhere of items for people who shudder at the thought of a naked lawn. The place is crowded with hundreds of objects designed to satisfy every yearning: there are pedestals holding colored glass balls that resemble huge Christmas-tree ornaments, 6-ft.-tall ranch-style windmills, plastic pink flamingos -- and some items that are downright tasteless, notably a painted wooden figure that depicts an obese woman bending over, seen from behind. "I won't go so far as to say we're the biggest in the business," says Harper. "I heard of some place in Chicago that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: How to Dress Up a Naked Lawn | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...even they would admit, particularly interesting." SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music. "A single really is a three-minute throwaway piece of plastic," says Stock, as if he's talking about a miniskirt. "It's nothing greater than that. But it's entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes for The New Ice Age | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...savagely beaten and interrogated by nearly 50 inquisitors. A Mexican pilot employed by Camarena was kidnaped and beaten as well. A month later the bodies of the two men were discovered by the side of the road near a ranch some 65 miles away, bound, gagged and stuffed into plastic bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Flames of Anger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...wants to be an architect; she's a fledgling journalist -- with a romantic sense as high as their SAT scores. On a weekend camping trip, Stan serves Darcy wine out of a thermos, toasts "Here's to forever" and gazes up with her at the stars through the plastic skylight of the tent he's designed. But when the unexpected baby boom comes, Stan is flummoxed: "Maybe we could put it up for abortion?" And when he determines to keep the child, his father (Kenneth Mars) reminds him: "You had a gerbil last year. You forgot to feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nights of The Falling Stars | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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