Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unwrapped, they prove too awful to eat. Just tip them into the bin marked THANK YOU and leave, moving past the plastic chairs rooted to plastic tables, the idea apparently being to facilitate hosing the place out, like a stable, during some lonesome midnight hiatus...
...curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to meet a wistful marketing illusion, something between motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers spurious opinions on contras and condoms. Junk food, junk music, junk opinions. Where are we? Where is the nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations...
From Southern California to Texas, towering saguaros on front lawns are the hottest thing since plastic pink flamingos. The demand has encouraged an illicit industry: cactus rustling. Many of the specimens bought by homeowners and collectors have been stolen from Government-owned wilderness lands. In Arizona last year more than 200 thieves were fined or given warnings for digging up a variety of state-protected species, most of which have shallow roots. Conservationists are now lobbying for stricter state and federal laws to stop poachers, who are lured by substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years...
Though she claimed to have converted to Roman Catholicism and wore a plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed...
...road for the first time since 1963, a platoon of colorful replacements was retained. An actor from HBO's 1st & Ten series, Joe Phillips, got a real sack and a job. Les Miller, who fell on a fumble in the end zone, no longer has to make plastic handles for ice coolers. Of the good teams, the Redskins in the National Conference and the Browns in the American survived as well as any. The Super Bowl champion the year of the last strike, in 1982, Washington was the only team without a veteran strikebreaker, though a few old hands were...