Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrifically funny. The find of the evening is Barry Nolan, the well-fluffed host of T.V.'s Evening Magazine, as the producer. The role is in the great vaudeville tradition of fast-talking, resourceful, unscrupulous profiteers and Nolan, behind big glasses, uses his deep, oily T.V. voice and ingratiatingly plastic manner with self-effacing cleverness. His line readings are fresh and unpredictable--never milking a joke for a second longer than it deserves--and though he always seems to be dropping his props, he moves with authority. Hard to believe, but Nolan has the intelligence and vocal flexibility...
...dead had been badly battered and their clothes shredded by the pounding surf. One woman clutched a fist ful of sand. A man had his shirt twisted around his neck. Among the meager belongings washed up on the beach: a copy of the New Testament, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the water. It was the worst such accident since some 50,000 illegal immigrants from the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation began arriving on U.S. shores ten years ago. "It's the kind of thing that was waiting to happen," said Florida Governor Bob Graham. "There probably have...
...first package, carefully encased in plastic, was found outside Britain's Chemical Defense Establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire. Inside was a galvanized metal bucket containing nothing, it seemed at first, but earth. A few days later, a second package turned up in Blackpool, where the ruling Conservative Party was holding its annual conference. It too contained a bucketful of earth wrapped in plastic, and apparently nothing else...
...Hamilton's witch in Oz terrified children of all ages; she never diluted her rottenness. Yet Gilliam has exorcised the seriousness out of where it belongs and makes the devil and his cohorts buffoons, wearing garbage bags over their capes and muttering things about advanced technology. Gilliam intends the plastic and electronics, which were also prominent in Kevin's living room, to personify evil as seeking the "ultimate truth" of the computer; yet they distract without amusing or enlightening...
Three Dunster-Mather tacklers waited at the five, unharrassed by Lowell blockers...Levine faked right and plunged to the left corner, buried beneath a mountain of flesh and sweaty plastic...Pontrelli launched himself toward the reddish-blue autumn sky, as the four officials simultaneously signaled a touchdown...