Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas Eve for a joint plea for peace in Viet Nam. In the muted elegance of the Pope's library, Johnson gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from ear to ear at the marvel of it all. Had Reynolds been around for his own funeral services, he surely would have displayed the same amusement and asked the same question: "Am I seeing...
...down the iron shutters in front of their shops, and the streets were soon deserted. But violent demonstrations broke out elsewhere in the West Bank. In Nablus, a young Arab woman was killed when protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers. At Bir Zeit University, Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters, plastic bullets and finally real ammunition at 300 rock-throwing Arab students, wounding four. As Palestinian leaders in the West Bank called for a three-day general strike, Jews and Arabs alike feared that the Hebron killings would set off a new cycle of violence in the tense territory...
...thrust forward as the band to save British and now American ears from the corrosive influence of fun music. The phenomenon of Joy Division cannot be overestimated; the music on their seminal, but now largely unlistenable, albums Closer and Unknown Pleasures was probably the most depressing ever put to plastic, but it thrilled a European rock elite looking for depth amidst the backlash of post-punk...
...Arizona, a stuffy concierge insists that Chase's credit cards are lost and refuses to cash a check because he has no plastic to back it up. Our hero then cleans out the hotel cash register. Soon after, the family discovers that crotchety old Aunt (Imogene Coca) has passed away in the car. In a Pythonesque sick joke, the family straps the body to the roof and deposits it at the widower's doorstep in Phoenix in the midst of a rainstorm...
...PRAISE can be heaped on New York's "Fearless 4," whose new song "Something New" perhaps shows the hazards of taking rap into the corporate swamp. (They were signed by Elektra/Asylum.) "Just Rock," which uses the music of Gary Numan's "Cars"--a song that should have never seen plastic the first time around--reaches for the same partydown atmosphere of the Jonzun Crew, but comes up empty...