Word: plasticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...breaking down antiquated ways of doing business, and not just in the environment. You can have fresh thinking during a crisis: how can we help the environment and save ourselves some money. Packaging is a perfect example. It makes me crazy to buy two Advil in $40 worth of plastic packaging. Yvon Chouinard, who runs Patagonia, is one of my close personal friends and a big environmentalist. He tells a wonderful story: he wanted to sell underwear without any packaging. I said, 'You'll go broke!' But he just put a rubber band around it and sales went...
...Jacob M. Harris, a junior at CRLS, brought a life-sized plastic cow to protest against...
...common room cannot comfortably accommodate, avoid futile attempts at conversation above the musical ruckus and instead, gyrating and flailing, awkwardly imitate the choreographic styles fashionable on MTV. And alcohol, the great midwife of this mise en scène, oversees the proceedings, ashamed and self-deprecating, peering out from plastic handles before being consumed in garish red Solo cups mixed with cranberry juice or diet cola...
...Hyundai seems to have dropped a nice vehicle into each of the major slots in the U.S. car market. It sells a nifty entry-level coupe and has a mammoth minivan called the Entourage. It markets SUVs and small sedans. They don't have any more or less cheap plastic trim in their interiors than a Honda. They are simply serviceable cars and trucks that probably won't break down...
...blistering reality that their futures are much brighter than my own in six months. Describe yourself in 3 words: Friend to folly. In 15 minutes you are: Ordering another red-eye coffee from JP Licks. In 15 years you are: Doing a cost analysis of a gym membership versus plastic surgery...