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...Orphan Annie, Richard Nixon. Even Hitler (in five-foot boots) and Eichmann (in his glass booth) stalk in for a turn. Some of the visual hyperbole misfires-notably an inchoate anti-church mélange with Moses and Christ turning up unfortunately as a couple of naked men in plastic bottles...
...veterans, with plastic rifles slung over their shoulders, retraced in reverse, Paul Revere's famous ride of 1775 to dramatize their opposition to the Vietnam war. Their arrival on the Common climaxed their participation in several days of antiwar activities, including a Saturday night encampment on the Lexington Battle Green which led to mass arrests Sunday...
...water Hogarth looks rather as if he is skiing. Brandishing a pair of poles stuck into plastic buckets filled with polystyrene, he pushes first one boot and then the other along the surface of the water in a flowing movement...
Invented in Czechoslovakia eleven years ago, the object of the excitement is a sliver of porous plastic, slightly larger than a regular contact lens, that becomes soft and pliable when it touches the tears of weak-eyed wearers. Because of its agreeable flabbiness, the soft contact lens can be fitted in one sitting, as compared to four for hard contact lenses. Ophthalmologists generally agree that the soft variety is more comfortable and less likely to become scratched or to pop out unexpectedly than the hard kind. There are some 90 million near-and far-sighted Americans, but only 10 million...
...popping claims, some ophthalmologists have found disadvantages in soft lenses. They provide less visual acuity, and they cannot correct extreme astigmatism. Because the porous plastic they are made of drinks moisture like a sponge, soft lenses are difficult to keep sterile. Wearers of Bausch & Lomb Sofenses are advised to boil them for 15 minutes each night in salt water. Table salt is not recommended because of its iodine content, nor is tap water because of a variety of impurities. Each pair of Soflenses comes with a bottle of salt tablets and an electric sterilizer that resembles a baby-bottle warmer...