Word: litterers
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...Even so, the end product is superior to any previous Polaroid process. Unlike the damp prints that emerge from present models, the new ones -which are made of plastic, not paper -feel completely dry, even during the remarkable, outside-the-camera developing process. Thus the paper liners and other litter needed to protect prints in present Polaroids have been eliminated...
...factions and forces are at work here. North Viet Nam will not give up, Nixon will not give up, Thieu will not give up, the Russians will not give up. Everyone presses on-even the pitiable people of Viet Nam, except, of course, those whose twisted, bloated, blown bodies litter the roads and fields, the stench of their death carried on the wind...
Other OAPs were much more careful about wasting things, and in the mornings and in the evenings I would see old people, dressed in that tattered grey coal that is almost a uniform, scrabbling around in the small litter baskets that line the streets. Who knows what they discover there" I sometimes look a clean-looking evening paper that stuck out invitingly, but there was more to be found than that...
...note, appear happy, relaxed and well fed. Markets and department stores are well stocked, although the prices of luxury items are almost prohibitive: a good camera, for example, costs $80. City streets are clean and orderly, and traffic jams are created by bicycles rather than cars. There is no litter, no beggars, no prostitution, no drug addiction, no alcoholism. Almost everyone wears drab, heavy-duty work clothes-children, however, are gaily and colorfully dressed-but there is no sense of utter poverty. Instead, workers and peasants alike beamingly tell Western visitors of their faith in Mao and his works...
...year 1975 is going to be a Holy Year, said Pope Paul VI, so let's clean up the Holy City. His Holiness was not referring to litter. "A certain pornographic license and debased morals" have crept into Roman life, he said. Nude magazines have proliferated, and striptease has become a common art form in nightclubs. The pilgrims who visit Rome during a Holy Year are granted plenary indulgences for their sins, but it would hardly do for them to encounter too many temptations in the very city that the Pope called "custodian of memories which are among...