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...sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful of safety pins. Incredibly, the Baileys' emergency kit did not contain fishhooks; the pins enabled them to catch small fish. Big turtles let themselves be grabbed by a flipper and, with some difficulty, wrestled aboard and butchered...
Daily wives grow more unkind and pink, and I must do with what was done when glutton, be content with television--plastic tit--count calories while they invent a better kind of missile...
...plastic bags he filled with orange juice kept bursting...
Asbestos is used in thousands of everyday products, and roughly a hundred new ones appear on the market each year. Pot holders, ironing board covers, draperies, rugs, movie screens, electrical tape, automobile brake linings, vinyl floor tiles and metal alloys contain asbestos, as do a whole host of plastic articles ranging from frying pan handles to playdough. The asbestos-cement industry is a principal user, employing asbestos in the fabrication of shingles, insulation and plastic board, pipes, roadways, sidewalks, asphalt and almost every other fireproof or high-friction cement product. No satisfactory substitute has yet been discovered...
...select forty-five works in different media. Cooper comments afterwards that one of the judges must have been color-blind--the one that awarded a prize to a large constructed painting. The painting consists of two semi-circular canvases in between which four oblong panels dangle from brightly colored plastic chains. On each panel is the letter L, O, V or E, each in a different loud color. Over the letters are painted objects like sea shells and flowers...