Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explicitly interpreted the statute to include political gatherings, meetings for amusement, and all public meetings held for lawful purposes. He waxed eloquent on the right of performers and promoters licensed by the state to be protected against wilful disturbances. Otherwise, he said, "a few ill-disposed persons... by tin horns, cracked kettles, and other loud and discordant sounds, as well as by vociferation, might destroy the effect of the most pathetic tragedy, or the sublimest oratorio...
There are major political implications to the heroin problem. One of Saigon's leading opposition papers, the Tin Dien, asked sarcastically: "Who wants to kill this regime? The rulers or the Communists?" The fact that some of Thieu's supporters are implicated in the heroin trade does not mean that the government either condones or encourages the illegal trafficking. Nonetheless, the paper pointed out that if Thieu failed to cope with the heroin scandal, it would be a major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin...
Bathtub Sofas. "I pick up usable trash," says Hugo Mesa, a commercial designer in Los Angeles. "It's all potential pollution." In his hands, a discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband...
...detritus of a consumer society in a different light: "I have such respect for the engineers and designers who spend literally hundreds of hours designing products and their packaging that I want to extend the usefulness of things." Allner's Manhattan apartment is full of intriguing results. Crushed tin cans have become fancy wall friezes; a broken wine bottle is redesigned as a stunning rose vase; and huge clusters of beer bottles are glued together to make abstract sculptures. On one wall, a shadow-box assemblage of coffee-can keys and lead wine labels forms a witty collage...
...college kids-most of them girls, of course-had been out on the road trying to master their bikes and the left side of the road regulation. And there's something about riding back to your room from the Terrace Bar at 2 a.m. thinking you're Rin Tin Tin that makes an accident a very real possibility. Naturally we only saw a couple of girls with casts on since most victims were in the popular Bermuda Hospital...