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Vocational training: the very phrase calls up the smell of plastic ashtrays, the clink of copper trinkets, the ennui of workshops crowded with delinquents manning lathes and squirting grease into crankcases. Vocational training should be a major source of steady employment for U.S. youths. Instead, it has become an educational junkyard for rejects from a college-geared society...
Outside over a Coke in the plastic cups Sylvia told Murray how the dress was brand new because she bought it for her senior prom but no one had invited her. Murray thought that was nice; he really liked new dresses...
...society of Americans that has watched hour-long Walt Disney TV programs about how he puts together the plastic rhinos in the jungle waters of Disneyland, a society that rips through the latest issues of Playboy and Esquire to read about the technical aparatus behind the gimmicks in the James Bond movies, a society that fills its newsstands with dozens of pulp magazines about the off-screen identities of its on-screen stars--these are pretty sophisticated movie-watchers...
...machine inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...
...Avram sees it, the doctor's job is not only to treat as many patients as possible but to get them back to work. For some, this would be difficult if they had the usual plastic tubes permanently implanted in their arms, with the ends exposed for hooking up to the machine. Avram uses instead a technique of joining an artery and vein inside the forearm, which causes the veins to enlarge. For each treatment, one needle is inserted near the site of this internal shunt to withdraw blood, and another higher up to return it. Thanks to this refinement...