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...could avoid tickets if only they had a Governor riding in the backseat. The "Backseat Governor" spots tapped a well of venom toward Dukakis, who recently jacked up registration and driver's-license fees as well as speeding fines. In response to callers, workers at WCOD began making cardboard cutouts -- no redundancy intended -- of the Duke suitable for backseat duty. The first batch of 100 propped-up caricatures sold out immediately, and there were orders for 500 more...
...childhood is consigned to oblivion. The reason those hot dogs linger so deliciously in the memory is not the hot dogs themselves, actually, but the toasted buns they came in, and the yellow pseudobuttery glop that reduced the toasted buns to toasted mush, and the elongated white cardboard containers that held the toasted mush so that one could make a game of trying to gnaw on the hot-dog mush without getting one's hands and face entirely covered with the dripping glop -- a game that, to one's parents' despair, one invariably lost...
These advanced machines have already started to change the way Americans work and play. The packaging for dozens of name-brand consumer products, from Ivory Snow to Kleenex tissues, is now designed on 3-D computers rather than from mock-ups made of cardboard or clay. Last year the entire line of Coca- Cola soft drinks was redesigned around a new logo -- a project that would have taken twice as long had it not been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite...
...most ballyhooed work, Buckley's adaptation of his espionage novel Stained Glass, proved stagnant and pointless. Deficiencies that can be overlooked on the page -- cardboard characters, what-if plots about events from decades ago, smugness about how easy it is to distinguish between right and wrong -- are wearisome on the stage. Buckley's dialogue was, if not sesquipedalian, then not serendipitous either. The cumbersome production resulted in set changes longer than the scenes, although the scenes were not necessarily any more interesting...
Just on Opening Day, the hot dogs don't taste like cardboard, the bleacher bums say "Excuse me" when they spill beer on you, and the umpire, God forbid, is right...