Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FRANCISCO--The shutdown of a shelter for earthquake victims to make room for a convention of plastic surgeons has angered some of the displaced and brought an angry defense by Mayor Art Agnos...
Most of the 1000 people housed in the Red Cross shelter at the huge Moscone Convention Center were moved yesterday to the Presidio army base and to a Navy transport ship, allowing time to prepare for the American Society of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgeons' convention Oct. 30, city officials said...
...They should have the plastic surgeons postpone it for a week and let people get over this earthquake. I'm still shaking from this quake," said Keith Holyfield, 28, an unemployed man in a stained shirt and tattered green-and-yellow Oakland Athletics' cap who waited outside the Moscone Center on yesterday...
JOHNNY HANDSOME (Mickey Rourke) has the face of the Elephant Man and the brain of a perverse computer. Now all he needs to take his revenge on some suave double-crossers is a little plastic surgery. Walter Hill's thriller boasts a sturdy cast (Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth McGovern) and a ripe sense of criminal ambiguity. Neat work...
...Norman complains that his own land is not safe. Exploration crews have combed his family's 40,000-acre spread. Where the Van Normans hold only surface rights, the crews have staked white plastic plumbing pipes as claim to the minerals below. Van Norman sneeringly refers to the claim stakes as "toilet-paper pipes." The zigzagging roads left by the exploration crews he doesn't like much either. "These terrible Zorro roads," he says, "are everywhere." What riles Van Norman most is the insult to the land. "We grew up with the belief that if you took care...