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Word: plastered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although sexual promiscuity is its membership fee, the groupie subsociety has its own curious moral code. It has even developed class strata of sorts. At the bottom are such aberrant types as "the Plaster Casters," a pair of young Chicago fetishists who, as their name implies, have a peculiar hobby. They make plaster casts of rock stars' anatomies-certain parts of their anatomies, that is. Only slightly higher on the social scale are the "kiss and tell" groupies, who collect and trade the names of their conquests-often falsely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners And Morals: The Groupies | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...show was supposed to be "a satire on our dehumanized society." It was also intended as a "sensory assault," careening along, sometimes with the screen split four ways, reaching for a dizzying 300 laughs in a half hour. To add to the disorientation, the set was a white plaster cyclorama and the cast wore invisible white booties. It all seemed to come from beautiful downtown nowhere. So did the gags, leaning largely on contraception and homosexuality. In response to critics' and affiliates' protest, the network cancelled this week's episode and called a weekend meeting "to determine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: From Beautiful Downtown Nowhere | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...have gone one step further in trying to be novel and have designed menus for clients on every conceivable material: wood, leather, plastic, burlap, suede, velvet, etc. The most unique was a menu for a medical convention-printed on the back of a large mustard plaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

When the flooded area was visited last night, the stench was overpowering. One student described it as "putrid--it smells like mildew." The floors were warped, the plaster was spattered, but the lung-clogging stench prevented a detailed examination of the damaged suites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 13 From Mower Are Flooded Out | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...gutsiest of the out-of-town recruits unearthed by the traveling scouts, displays Perusal's Oar, a leprously painted dream abstract crowned by a monster lobster claw. Another out-of-town eccentric, Walter McNamara from Reno, also displays an amusing work. His Soft Ware with Non-Tongue Plaster looks like nothing on earth except perhaps a telephone switchboard that some slap-happy electrician has partially torn apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Floating Wit | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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