Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This message of class confusion may be overstated, but Lurie's reports from the field of feminine fashion are witty and compact. On designer accessories: "Very ugly brown plastic handbags, which, because they were boldly stamped with the letters 'LV,' . . . cost far more than similar but less ugly brown leather handbags." On excess jewelry: a "lower-middle-class or nouveau riche indicator of sensual laxity." The "Annie Hall" look: "I'm only playing; I'm not really big enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting...
...last week 500 supermarkets were stocking the newly trademarked Jailhouse Bread, packaged in red-white-and-blue plastic bags featuring a two-story jail with six barred windows. The stores will be supplied by a private bakery, and royalties will be paid to the county for the right to distribute the product based on the jail's recipe. Convict labor is thus not taking any jobs away from community residents, but the inmates stand to gain. As part of its deal with the county, the private bakery has pledged to hire some of the Jailhouse bakers when they...
...here after dinner, though for by about 10 p.m. the Brewery has turned into just another dumb, psuedo-cool pick-up joint. The money they lose with their early evening specials, they make up later on their ridiculously over-priced drinks. We were charged $1.75 for 10 oz, plastic cups of draught beer...
...Barry Goldwater, 72, Arizona's grand old conservative Republican Senator; with degenerative arthritis in the left hip; in Phoenix. He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket. Goldwater, who limped painfully around the Senate during the AW ACS debate, will be out for six weeks...
Toyota showed the shape of things to come in Japanese cars. Whenever a different driver enters the automobile, he inserts a plastic card in the dashboard that adjusts the seats, air conditioning and mirror to his specific desires. Shock absorbers automatically regulate the car's suspension to accommodate the number of passengers. Once the car is under way, a radar-activated cruise-control senses vehicles ahead and applies the brakes when necessary. In addition, an ultrasonic system warns the driver of any obstructions up to ten feet behind the vehicle. If it starts to rain, electronic windshield wipers adjust...