Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dear Virginia: Your parents are both wrong. You see, there is really no such thing as a Liz and Richard. In reality, they are life-size plastic balloons that Henry Kissinger carries around in his plane, and when things get bad, he inflates the balloons in different parts of the world to show the mean people that there is really something worthwhile to believe in. Tell your Daddy to write to Mr. Kissinger, who will mail him a set of Liz and Richard balloons for only $1.98. This will stop all the confusion, end the cold war and make...
...Fifty straight years," Harry kept saying as he roamed the lawn outside Kresge last Sunday afternoon. All around him, members of the Class of 1951 and their wives cradled drinks in plastic cups and nibbled miniature hot dogs that they speared with plastic toothpicks...
Behind him, classmates and their wives strolled over to shake hands with Goldberg and Bok. As the classmates approached, Goldberg would shout out a name and a greeting, while Bok would fix a fast glance at everyone's plastic name badge...
...from Harlem to Wall Street, plastered every available wall with red-white-and-blue posters bearing Moon's smiling face, and handed out free tickets to the "God Bless America Festival." In a shrewd civic come-on, platoons of Moonies donned white jumpsuits, armed themselves with brooms and plastic bags and cheerfully worked from neighborhood to neighborhood tidying up city streets...
...truth can be told: some children grow up on mother's milk, building blocks and plastic trucks, or even with other children. I grew up with Walter Cronkite. My formative years were absorbed, not with coloring books and Crazy Cat, but with Saturn B Ones described in melifluous basso, and election nights in enormous studios resembling a Cecil B. DeMille vision of the end of the world. And conventions, where my hero sat serene above the tedium and hubub, reassuring a doubtful nation that democracy needn't be orderly...