Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even less tied to traditional ways than Mategot, a few hardy pioneers have stopped creating designs for factories and begun making their own free-form wall hangings. They work directly with such out-of-the-way materials as jute, sisal and new synthetic yarns, which they knit, tie and wrap into works so offbeat that baffled customs officials sometimes confuse them with rugs...
...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 the cast...
...trouble with modern plastics is that they seem to be as immortal as they are useful. 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...
Flex were black, high-ankle PFC's- Puerto Rican Eence Climbers. Bright white socks- Woolworth's of Cambridge- rose from his boots to black pants, a white tee shirt, and an oversized black leather jacket. He was sporting wrap-around windshield shades and the finest hair-do north of Brooklyn, Flex claims he uses three-quarters of a tube of "New" Score in it: that way it stays in place in breezy Cambridge...
Catinella wrestled at 142 for most of the season, but moved down to 134 for the Ivy League schedule. Schnorr. who managed only two victories before the league wrap-up in February, came through with a crucial win against Yale in the season finale...