Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin, who wrote the pretty-funny, too-soppy script, means to drink from the river this time. He wants it all: laughs, tears, low comedy, uplift. It doesn't quite happen, partly because the movie begs for poignance like an orphaned puppy, partly because modern plastic surgery makes the plot anachronistic, partly because, even with his Cyranose, C.D. is a darned sight more attractive than his beefy rival. Aaaahh, who cares, as long as Steve Martin gets a chance to strut his physical grace, wrap his mouth around clever dialogue, clamber up to rooftops like a Tarzan of the Northwest...
...which determines Harvard police protection policies, currently does not consider protective garments necessary. "We don't have plastic gloves or anything else," said DeputyChief of Harvard Police Jack W. Morse. "The onlygloves we have are special white gloves forCommencement...
...that takes care of the outside ceremonies. Before the 3000 alumni and families arrived, their 2500 Yard, River, and Quad "hotel" rooms had to be prepared. The spring cleaning required the services of more than 350 students. The dorm crew workers used hundreds of mop heads, more than 1000 plastic bags, and over 100 gallons of degreaser, says Alan C. Edwards, supervisor of custodial services in the College area...
Post allegedly worked his legerdemain with blank white plastic cards and a small magnetic encoding machine that he bought for $1,800. By peering over customers' shoulders and retrieving their discarded banking receipts, he obtained the personal ID and bank-account numbers needed to activate the computerized tellers. Using the encoding machine, he embellished his plastic with strips of magnetic tape bearing digital codes almost identical to those on the defrauded customers' cards...
...defense contractor with $11 billion in annual sales charges the Government $1,118.26 for the plastic cap on a stool...