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...chemicals made the asphalt give way beneath him. He thought he was sinking into a kind of "shallow, rubbery dimple." He climbed from dimple to dimple toward the office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that this was Hawaiian Week. Then he saw his sales manager approaching in a grass skirt and a pink T shirt that said "Make Love Not War." The sales manager greeted Dwayne by saying "Aloha...
...transparency in three dimensions, created an extremely beautiful plexiglass sculpture that produces different color overlaps and transparencies as the viewer walks around it. Perhaps only as an independent study could Robert Stortz work on his unusual, cylindrical light sculpture consisting of two fluorescent lights encased in pieces of colored plastic. Another piece worth nothing is a metal sculpture done by Tom Costagliola meant to spin under the force of falling water...
...performed in front of a live audience), and the camera is placed so close to the dancers that any illusion of reality is lost. As a result, in La Sylphide about a Scottish lord who falls in love with a wood nymph), as the camera glides coyly behind a plastic bush and peers out at Nureyev in white lipstick and kilt, nostrils flaring, the effect is more like a parody of Brigadoon than serious, classical ballet. In The Sleeping Beauty, it is grossly unfair to Lynn Seymour that the camera is close enough todistract the audience's attention from...
...East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash out in eye"), or corkscrews ("jab quickly and directly, then twist...
...gone overboard on her identification. Or perhaps it is just that hitting so hard at Hollywood for so long has made her desperate for something to like. So she lingers over this plain wallflower movie not because it's any flower but because it isn't a plastic...