Word: saran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane, as designed, measures 107 feet from wingtip to wingtip and has a small, one-man fuselage. The wing frames are built from balsa wood covered with saran wrap, while the leading edges are constructed of "foamulum," a newly invented light-weight aluminum compound resembling styrofoam in appearance. In all, without a pilot, the plane weighs 119 pounds...
...artist's friends. Segal watches them, studying their gestures and movement until, he says, "one moment clicks with me. A person may reveal nothing of himself and then suddenly make a movement that contains a whole autobiography." The pose held, Segal covers the model's hair with Saran Wrap and the exposed flesh with grease; then he wraps him up in gauze bandages soaked in liquid Hydro-Stone. For the model, this mummification can be an itchy, nasty and claustrophobic experience. One of Segal's models, the wife of New York Taxi Mogul Robert Scull, panicked inside...
...Plastic garbage bags litter Italy; Florida's discarded containers clog Bahama beaches. Each year one Kansas plant makes enough cellophane to wrap the earth with a 15-inch band 40 times; most of it becomes enduring garbage. Even getting rid of plastics can be dangerous. When polyvinyls like Saran Wrap are burned, they produce corrosive hydrochloric acid...