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...instead sent word out from Vien Hoa Dao to cool it. In an astonishing display of their power to turn the masses off and on at will, the demonstration was transformed into a peaceful, highly organized march. The 15,000 faithful that assembled at the institute left behind their plastic-bag gas masks and clubs and grenades. As they marched out to demonstrate, burly Boy Scouts ranged themselves abreast as a vanguard, staves held waist high, to keep the crowd in line. In two short hours, the promenade was over, as smoothly orchestrated in its tranquillity as the previous week...
...have." But after a great deal of water sloshing in buckets the crisis is resolved. Characterizations are often achieved through a single line. When Ruth speaks of herself as cultered she says, "Red wine with meat and white wine with fish," and then continues to clean the plastic slipcovers on the furniture. The parents are parodies and are played accordingly by John Burslem and Jane Bullock...
...rented a live lion (the state symbol of Bavaria) to draw attention to its exhibit. B.M.W. got more attention than it bargained for when, in full view of TV cameras, the lion bit a pretty 23-year-old model on the leg -so severely that she had to undergo plastic surgery...
Clean-Cut & Brilliant. He began hitting his stride with plastic accessories. Then from sun goggles and huge choker necklaces the jewelry grew into whole dresses, until currently he buys 30,000 meter-square sheets of Rhodoid plastic a month. But production is still painstakingly slow: ten days for a short shift, 15 days for a long dress...
...required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...