He dug past food scraps and plastic and retrieved gauze, syringes, drip bags, vials, an empty bottle of Tranxene, and an empty foil packet of Buscopan.
Forty-four objects, including Victorian hair jewelry, an 1880s armchair made of steer horns, above, and 1920s prints of insects with intertwined legs, will be shown along with the prototype for a new Campana chair -- "a nonserious criticism of the loss of the wicker-making tradition," Mr. Campana said, created by wrapping dried vines around plastic objects retrieved from the trash.
(Clubhouse boys and the unused Joba Chamberlain squirting the most riotously; Pettitte, a teetotaler, slipping behind the plastic covers, retrieving his dry clothing and retreating to a back room).
The built-up plastic part is retrieved and put through post-processing steps.
Or John E. Keating, who has only a plastic bank card, retrieved from the Fresh Kills landfill, where debris from the twin towers site was being sifted, to show for the mortal remains of his 72-year-old mother, Barbara, who was also on board Flight 11. "You become obsessed by it," said Mr. Keating, a software developer who lives in Toronto.
The new issue of Vogue reports on how the sort of humiliating endurance tests all sensible people left behind once we had successfully retrieved a plastic brick from the bottom of a swimming pool in our pyjamas aged 12 have become de rigueur social activities.
Heidi Ettinger's set for "Dinner With Demons" is more than a working kitchen: it is spacious and evocative, with a backdrop of brightly colored jars and bottles and vases; gleaming pots and pans hanging way too close to the ceiling to ever be retrieved; and plastic food and bottles of wine piled up artfully like gifts at the foot of a Christmas tree.
Early last week, Katie Roiphe wrote a piece for Slate bemoaning the "increasing fashion for … negative obituaries," in which critiques of the deceased, from Jan Berenstein to Christopher Hitchens, are "timed as the dead person's possessions are still being retrieved in plastic bags by their relatives from the hospital".
The interviewer assumed he was being evasive until the villager retrieved a plastic bag with all his cash and began counting it.Urban respondents were more recalcitrant: in the cities 16.5% of the original sample refused to take part, compared with only 3.2% in the countryside.
As the med card is retrieved, the plastic pouch is opened, and it is placed horizontally on an even surface (Figures 1 and 2). Figure 1 Flow chart of the study.
