Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other products are even more portable and flexible. Intoximeters Inc. of St. Louis produces the transistor radio-size Alco-Sensor, which is being used for roadside tests by police in cities like New York. The $390 device gives a digital readout when the suspect breathes into its plastic mouthpiece. In July, Allstate Distributors of Marietta, Ga., introduced a coin-operated tester for use in taverns...
From the first view of a rundown kitchen, complete with refrigerator and green plastic chairs, director R.J. Cutler and set designer Peter Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than...
...upscale airiness, with their blond-wood exteriors and glass skylights. The interiors suggest a greenhouse, complete with hanging plants, brass fixtures and etched-glass partitions. Says Sheley: "I wanted to be the first chain to offer a full-range menu in a place that doesn't look plastic...
SOME HARVARD PRIMA DONNAS used to grouse that Sellars treated them like his hobby, puppets. Sellars' novel device in Pericles actually does just that--turns actors into puppets, using plastic masks on the evil characters. The technique produces an eerie, sinister effect; the masks, sometimes grotesque, sometimes animal, sometimes human, look frighteningly real. Though without masks, Pericles, Thaisa and Marina are equally un rounded as characters; when Lysimachus removes his mask repenting of his past ways, the easy gimmick becomes a tour de force...
Tolleson said that the stolen goods include plastic bowls and about 800 spoons, 500 knives and 400 forks. In the Houses, thefts also include glasses, which are not used in the Union, Tolleson said...