Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waste Management, Inc., at its C.I.D. Hazardous Waste landfill in Chicago. A giant excavation 35 ft. deep covers two acres. A floor of compacted clay approximately 40 ft. thick has been laid below the bottom of the hole. On top of this virtually impermeable bed, workmen are placing a plastic liner to be topped by a plastic-grid system that will collect and direct any seepage into a series of sump pumps. Above the grid will be another plastic liner, another layer of clay and yet more plastic. A plumbing system will pump rainwater out of the area. Nearby...
...trailers at the Easy Living Mobile Manor, and the Easy Living Laundromat has a sign out front that says, THANKS FOR COMING, but there are no people. Windows are unbroken, and a few have curtains, neatly sashed back. There are some cars, a bird feeder made from a plastic Seven-Up bottle, a hammock tied from an elm to a sycamore, a riding mower with a Six Flags sticker on it, and FOR SALE signs all over the place. Pinned up on one front door is a printed passage from Psalms: "This is the day which the Lord hath made...
...latest gift of cosmetic surgery: tattooing a thin dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a year ago, about 15,000 of her modern-day sisters have scurried off to ophthalmologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons in unblinking pursuit of a fuss-free made-up look. The operation appeals especially to athletic women who do not want to worry about runny eyeliner and to those with poor eyesight, arthritis or allergies who have trouble putting on or wearing eye makeup. The cost: usually...
...years ago, on the plastic turf of Schoellkopf Field, Harvard--which was on its way to a share of the Ivy title--deadlocked a Big Red squad that was floundering to a 3-6-1 season...
...horrors of this establishment bring out the best in Alice. There is no electricity, heat, water or plumbing. Plastic buckets of excrement left by previous squatters fill an upstairs room. The local borough council plans to tear the place down. Alice wheedles bureaucrats, placates the police, steals substantial sums of money from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence...