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...help rebuild it, she had silicone injections to fill out her cheeks and plastic surgery that lifted her upper eyelids but did nothing for her spirit. Hypnosis, yoga, cell implants and love affairs helped her morale, but by the end of one liaison Luciana realized, "I had really become very plain looking-almost nothing on my face, nothing on my nails, the most casual clothes." After another year during which she was "so bored I used to remove the hairs from my legs, one by one, with tweezers," Luciana went back to Rome to face facts and her mirror: beauty...
...students plan to question Land about Polaroid's ID-2 camera system and its use by the South African government. The ID-2 processes color photographs and seals them in indestructible plastic along with various coded information about the individual it has been programmed...
...pigs, the Porcellian Club, pigs, pigs. The stoned vs. the straight, the freak vs. the pig-that is his Manichean worldview. And so we follow Peter Harkness from Boston to Berkeley, his suitcase crammed with grass, his mind constantly finding newer and better ways to elude the pigs, beat plastic, uptight America, take the money...
DONALD Sutherland's twenty-ninth floor suite at the Sheraton Boston Hotel feels like a hothouse-its windows are fogged up with steam and the air inside is heavy and stale. Half empty wine glasses are scattered about the plastic and gold, French streamlined tables, and a portable cart, crowded with dirty dishes and the remains of a lunch, dominates the center of the room. It is four o'clock on a February afternoon...
Schwitters worked on the Merzbau for 18 years, and it was still unfinished when he was forced into exile in 1937. It must have been the most fabulously complex plastic work of the 20th century, a sculptural Finnegans Wake; some intimation of its scope may be had from one detail that Schwitters called The Cathedral of Erotic Misery. This was a column some twelve feet high and six feet wide, with compartments bearing such names as "The 10% War Invalid," "Ruhr District," "Goethe's Grotto" and "Sex-Murders Cavern." They enshrined, among other relics, a tattered stocking, which Schwitters...