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...Robert Anderson puts the questions anew in the second, longer, and stronger of his duo of playlets, Solitaire/Double Solitaire. (The first is an Orwellian fantasy penned in plastic.) In Double Solitaire, Charley (Richard Venture) and Barbara (Joyce Ebert) have allowed 23 years of marriage to carry them from bliss to boredom. Charley is also caught in the middle of the contemporary value crisis. On the one side are his parents, people of stamina and principle, who have weathered 50 years of marriage. On the other side is Charley's son, who flaunts his liberated liaison with a girl...
Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
...into a bottle. Discomfort during the five-minute operation, which often includes a quick curettage, is minimal. Pain is all but eliminated in a refinement of vacuum aspiration developed by Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist: for pregnancies of less than ten weeks' duration, doctors use a thin plastic tube that is smaller in diameter than the more commonly used cannula. This avoids the dilatation process entirely...
...Government surveys, only 30% of riders buckle into the belts, and a mere 5% use the harnesses. To protect people more effectively, the Department of Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within forty-thousandths of a second after automatic sensors detect a collision, and then quickly deflate. In theory, at least, such a system could save at least 40% of the lives now lost in head...
...father on my Oedipus complex? Was he aware of the future decreased pleasure the operation would incur, and did this represent hatred of me? Did he, with my mother's consent, subconsciously want me castrated?" Philosophically, Harnes concludes that "what was done was done." Anyway, he notes, neither plastic surgery nor prosthetic technology can alter matters where he is concerned...