Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still limps. Despite plastic surgery, her nose is crushed and her upper lip is permanently split. But when she testified last week in a Manhattan courtroom against her former live-in lover, who is accused of beating to death their illegally adopted six-year-old daughter, Hedda Nussbaum spoke in a firm, clear voice. What emerged was a bizarre tale of violence, drug abuse, isolation and mind control inflicted by disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg. Asked why she never escaped from Steinberg's thrall, Nussbaum had a simple reply: "I worshiped...
...marked by a dramatic rise in the number of plastic artificial evergreens, Penn State students have apparently decided to side with tradition. Last Christmas, the school reported more than five incidents of tree theft from university grounds. The loss totalled about $6000, officials said...
With little kids scampering in between tables laden with hors d'oevres and plastic glasses of white wine, about 100 union members and their supporters gathered to make merry. While the Pipettes didn't quite sing Handel's "Messiah," their tunes lofted across the church's crowded rooms, creating a distinctive mixture of Christmas spirit and union activism...
Juba is a city of wanderers roaming hopelessly through muddy streets in a desperate search for food. Silent women with empty plastic buckets throng the 2-acre Konyo-Konyo Market, scavenging through its hundreds of barren wooden stalls. Only weeds, leaves and lily pods are for sale, at 50 cents a miserable bunch. Even the richest cannot find food here. A civil servant like Michael Apollo eats only one bowl of boiled weeds a day and sends his family to beg at emergency feeding centers. Everywhere people thrust themselves forward, baring their bony chests and screaming, "Look how hungry...
...saying on the show that it's all just a chunk of plastic on a stick," Fries said...