Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made. The problem is the packaging: some people think nothing of leaving the cap off or nonchalantly squeezing from the 1 middle of the tube. But now U.S. makers of "dentifrice think they can bring harmony to the bathroom sink with a packaging breakthrough: the pump, a hard plastic container that dispenses toothpaste with a flick of the thumb...
...nature. On display at the MOMA show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk is equipment that a Hobbit industrialist would use. But Aalto was no whole-earth nostalgist. His 1947 snack tray, molded of thick white plastic with troughs for food, is sci-fi urban, and surely the most formal TV-dinner platter ever made...
...instead of the football-style face masks of the past, they'll be sporting plastic visors...
...days later, while I was leafing through a collection of short stories, the following passage stood out. He selected a part of black plastic frames an much thick, with hinged corner that stuck out from the cheek bones like a horse's blinders, pieces heavy enough to bend the ear. They were a kind of mask that hid half his face...
...single man, solitary on stage, stands staring through a piece of rectangular plastic, a small, open circle rounded by red at its center. He falls backward, rigid, his body hitting the ground so hard it raises clouds of dust and makes a sound like a dull detonation. A siren starts to shriek. It could be a warning, or a summons...