Word: coins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harrowby. But the show and its catalog broadcast together on a narrow band of social meaning, emitting what is basically a fantasy about relationships between taste, property and justice. The show has done an extraordinary job of conveying the opulence of its subject. But the other side of the coin is worth remembering, even as one gapes...
...Patents, Copyrights, and Licensing booth advertised "invention advice" for 5 cents and featured a collapsible geodesic dome made of coffee-stirrers and dental floss a wind-up jumping mouse that went up in the space shuttle, and a coin bank whose skeletal, green hand emerges from inside to snatch pennies...
Kirkland won the coin toss, elected to receive, and both squads lined up to get the game going. The officials were about to call for the Flame kick off, when the Adams sideline brought it to their attention that there was no ball on the field...
Still, the pervasiveness of the computer revolution at Drexel was beyond even Berner's expectations: coin-operated modems in the library for telephone communications between computers; printer stations in the dorms; computer- designed flyers tacked to every bulletin board. And nobody had told her that two days after she picked up her Mac (one of 1,809 distributed to the freshman class), she would be tapping out her first English composition for a professor who refuses to read any paper that is not written on a word processor...
...next Pac-man, but the hottest thing going right now in certain rural areas of 21 states is a coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...