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Word: plastics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object of "Killer" is "to kill without being killed." For a two-dollar registration fee, participants receive a plastic water pistol and an official entry card with the name of their intended target. To "kill" his victim, the assassin must show his water pistol and say. "You're dead...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy and Leslie J. Smith, S | Title: 70 Students to Play Assassin As 'Killer' Begins at Harvard | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

DIED. John Converse, 71, plastic surgeon and founder-director of New York University's Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, a center that combines surgery with psychology and speech therapy to mend the psyches as well as the features of the disfigured; of a heart attack; in Southampton, N.Y. The University of Paris-trained Converse pioneered many surgical techniques, including cranial-facial restructuring, edited a seven-volume text on reconstructive plastic surgery known in the field as "the bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...crowded corridors of the West Wing, you are reminded how Secret Service agents have a way of seeing everything without ever looking at anything directly. White House stewards shuttle in and out of offices with coffee, yellow pads, and pencils. Everyone is smiling except for the men with the plastic discs in their ears, one of whom whispers to the press aide, who immediately assumes a worried expression...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: A Presidential Close-Up | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

...says in her silverbell voice. Apples is Dutch; she speaks six languages. She lives her life allegro; she makes between $100,000 and $200,000 a year and needs it all. She lives on take-out Chinese food, and her kitchen, as it develops, is equipped with two plastic cups and one plastic fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modeling the '80s Look: The Faces and Fees are Fabulous | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...REST of the cast members deliver uniformly fine and funny performances. Charles Grodin, as Pat's plastic husband Vance, has perfected his wimp's smile and slouch; he's made a career of portraying obnoxious sissies. Ned Beatty is appropriately sleazy as Vance's boss, the advertising king who wants to hide the secret of Pat's shrinking because it could cause a "crisis of confidence in American consumerism...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Little Steps for Little Feet | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

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