Word: caveats
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...Good taste is available anywhere," says Manhattan Designer Barbara Marsten. "But you have to come to us for something garish." So one does, judging by the brobdingnagian baubles designed by Marsten's firm, appropriately named Caveat Emptor. The latest in nouveau gauche is a collection of oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world...
Alberta Arthurs gave a thumbnail sketch of today's Harvard students, prefacing her description with the caveat, "You have to realize that I'm speculating, I'm guessing, I'm generalizing, and I may be wrong. If there are undergraduates here, they would undoubtedly correct me." And then she said of today's undergraduates...
...book illustrators of the Edwardian epoch. The English Dreamers displays the lush, romantic works of such pre-Raphaelites as Burne-Jones and Millais. The Christmas Book is a rich survey of Yuletide art from ancient Collier's magazine covers to the naive masterworks of Grandma Moses. Only one caveat: four of these five bargains would grace any child's library. Temptation, however, offers explicit pictures like Dali's Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity. The book must carry an unseasonal rating...
...have to be in the mood for it" might be one caveat for the show. But a more appropriate one would be "You have to be below sixteen or above thirty-five, come from a strict up-bringing and not be going to college." We can easily visualize matronly ladies who come paying high theater prices expecting to see a play, who are shocked and involuntarily titillated by the uninhibited use of words they have only read in print and even then disguised by asterisks. But for a generation of college students nurtured on National Lampoon, Lenny Bruce and Cheech...
None of the operators are crooks but they don't exactly stress caveat emptor either. A smart buyer knows how not to get stuck with a bum part. Every yard on the alley will test any movable part upon request and most are proud to explain the special one-time guarantee--the part will be replaced free of charge if it fails to work up to and including the first time it is used after installation...