Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read with a touch of amusement "Plastic Armor of God" (November 2), Laurie M. Grossman's account of her visit to Heritage U.S.A. I've often wondered exactly how garish a "Christian" theme park could be. Now I know...
...bucket, trying to persuade passersby that her culinary skills outshine her grasp of English spelling. A street stall displaying posters of the rock group Wham! advertises a dazzling red-and-blue "American garment." Private traders without permanent stands spread out blankets with photos of movie stars, horoscope cards and plastic hair brushes...
...Moscow also has its entrepreneurial legions: 12,000 officially registered "individual laborers" and more than 650 "cooperatives." While a policeman looks on benignly, commuters outside Kiev railway station examine the cloth shopping bags, plastic sandals and odds and ends of knitwear on display in a battered truck. Street artists on the Arbat compete for customers. Gorky Park is alive with the sound of plastic bird whistles, costing a relatively hefty 1.50 rubles...
...Bergman must take this raw material, put it into some order and then "frame it to represent the world of the child." The set consists of red tubular scaffolding with connecting platforms. Around this are displayed the emblems of childhood: a red plastic baseball bat, a father's jacket, a mother's frying pan, a sister's dress and, the play's most symbolic prop, the leather strap. For three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated...
...headed for Main Street Heritage USA--a row of pastel storefronts covered with Christmas bulbs and American flags. In the toy store I pressed the tummy of a $25 doll, and it praised Jesus. The plastic Armor of God, manufactured by Praise Unlimited of Sarasota, Florida, was available at a more moderate price. And I found a real bargain at the drug store sale--"Tammy Faye for President" buttons, for only 99 cents...