Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welcome, delegates. You have been seen sauntering down Atlanta's Peachtree Street in funny hats, strolling doubleknit arm in doubleknit arm along Chicago's Michigan Avenue, wandering through Detroit's Renaissance Center freighted with hors ?oeuvre plates and plastic highball glasses, hanging on to San Francisco's cable cars, riding the escalators up and down Los Angeles' Century City still wearing your HELLO MY NAME is badges. And gawking at the tall buildings along Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas, snake-dancing through the streets of New Orleans' Vieux Carré, wearing aloha shirts in Waikiki, slapping old backs...
...Maine museum, where the treasure has now been placed under protective plastic, Archaeologist Bruce Bourque was more restrained. Even if the coin is Norwegian, he said, it may have been brought to the site from a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, not by Norsemen but by seagoing Indians. After all, he noted, no other Norse materials have been discovered around Blue Hill. Still, the museum is taking no chances. To stave off a possible stampede of runic treasure hunters who might indeed turn Blue Hill into a facsimile of Trillin's Berryville, Maine officials want the area around the Indian...
...course this is impossible. The Bargain? The incarnation of an ideal? The one priceless but cheap item that all others have missed? This must be a joke. But no. The look in Namo's eye when we set out was one of fierce determination, and as he clutched his plastic money in his sweaty palm, he drooled ever so slightly...
...next morning, nineteen girls and nineteen fathers arrive at the Youngbloods' Club, to hang up their debut gowns and to practice the Presentation in the ballroom. Picking their way among trails of plastic cedar, they listen as a sleepy-eyed Youngblood explains the procedure: the announcer will call out each girl's name; holding a bouquet of white roses, she will then ascend the platform, curtsey to the audience, then march down the hall and latch back onto her father's arm. They run through it once, simulating the rose bouquets with short ropes of the plastic cedar...
...were young and Utah was dry. No liquor gets sold over the counter in the homeland of Mormon sobriety. You went to a bar, or so they told us, and brought your own bottle and paid for a set-up. So we lounged in the orange plastic chairs, trying to sleep off the state and the snow