Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plastic heart recipient Barney Clark still faces problems
...radioactive materials will be compacted into plastic jugs which will then be placed in plastic bags and stored in the steel barrels, which will remain in the warehouse for two years until they decompose sufficiently to fall below federal and state radioactivity standards...
With its round head, beady eyes and red-buttoned pot belly, it looks like an armless, three-foot-high plastic snowman. Rolling across the floor on big black wheels, it embodies one of man's most enduring dreams: the personal robot, programmed to do its master's bidding. Inside its molded skull a kind of sassy intelligence seems to be at work. "What strange-looking creatures," it intones nasally in the direction of some gawking visitors at its home base, Androbot, Inc., in Sunnyvale, Calif. "Where are your wheels...
...uplifting and powerful. Among the men Mike (John Dolf) and Richie (Woodrow Thompson) stand out for their fast footwork, strong voices and sheer exuberance. And Val, played by Lois Englund, excels in the bawdy "Dance: Ten: Looks: Three," as the once ugly duckling who found strutting success through massive plastic surgery and silicon-induced "tits...
...Australia, the girl next door is a Toyah-coiffed punkette who's not averse to finding true love in a one-night stand, and the mom and pop business is the HarborView Motel, a working class pub with a vintage Fabulous Fifties interior that squeaks like your grandmother's plastic slipcovers...