Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dressed incongruously in track suits sprinted from cell blocks in the prison of Atlit to a caravan of eleven buses that hauled them across the border to Ras al Bayada, the northernmost checkpoint of the remaining Israeli "security" (i.e., occupation) zone in southern Lebanon. There, Israeli soldiers untied white plastic ropes from the prisoners' wrists and turned them over one by one to Red Cross officials for release...
...Vancouver. The reservation for the connecting Air India flight from Tokyo prompted speculation that the bomb that exploded at Narita Airport, possibly in L. Singh's luggage, was meant to go off aboard the Tokyo-Bombay flight, but had detonated prematurely. Reports in the Japanese press that a plastic explosive had caused the Narita blast and that Lal Singh's fingerprints had been found on luggage fragments were not confirmed by Japanese officials...
MARRIED. Victoria Principal, 35, doe-eyed, taut-bodied TV actress who plays Dallas' goody-goody Pam Ewing; and Harry Glassman, 42, plastic surgeon to the rich and sagging of Beverly Hills; both for the second time; in, of course, Dallas. The wedding was small and private, but the show's cast was invited to a celebration brunch the following...
...obstinate integrity, the precise result of a sudden movement. And by the early to mid-'60s, the time of the great triptychs, when Bacon decisively abandoned the "spectral," scumbled evocations of the face used in his Popes and caged businessmen, his figures had begun to embody an immense plastic power. Sometimes these creatures, knotted in contrapposto, seem desperately mannered; but there are other moments when the smearing and knotting of flesh, not so much depicted as reconstituted in the fatty whorls and runs of paint, take on a tragic density closer to Michelangelo than to modernism. Among those artists...
...Conventional records store sound in the form of tiny waves cut into vinyl grooves. When a diamond or sapphire stylus passes over them, its vibrations create a tiny electrical current that is converted back into sound. Tape players work in a similar way, reading sound from magnetized particles on plastic ribbon. Both methods involve a process known as analog recording, in which the music is represented as a physical replica, or analog, of the original sound. The chief drawback in each case is that the phonograph stylus or tape head rides constantly on the playing surface. This causes wear...