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...guest. Worried that the police would question him as soon as they found their suspect "clean," Windeyer went straight to the men's room. "Somewhere in the sewage system of western Montreal," he reports, "there is a couple of hundred dollars worth of heroin bobbing around in plastic bags...
...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...
...Cummings aware of the fact that their $3,500 plastic lawn cannot return oxygen to the atmosphere...
Marked by a row of plastic shrubs and a golden moose head that juts over the street like a ship's prow, the lodge presents an austere façade of concrete, without windows. A sign on the closed front door says MEMBERS ONLY. Anyone who wants to enter must press a button and wait to be inspected by the bartender via closed-circuit...
...headquarters of Detroit's automakers, executive desk tops and coffee tables have lately sprouted plastic models of a strange-looking engine, and in high-level conversations around them, knowing mentions are made of something called an epitrochoid. Visitors soon learn that the models are see-through likenesses of the Wankel rotary engine-and an epitrochoid, in case they did not know, is the bloated figure-eight shape that its rotor follows when moving. Both the baubles and the vocabulary are just two more signs that the long-discussed Wankel has finally shifted up from being Detroit's vague...