Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although an suction speaker stressed that the women were all volunteers and not obligated to do anything they found offensive, the event drew sexual remarks from the audience. Moreover, the woman whose plastic G-string was presented with her by the auctioneer received...
Turning to another pattern, cubism brings together the American fascinations with the trivia and the inventive Cleverly designed, the cube appeals to a nation that is home to electric can openers, touch-tone phones, and canned hot shaving cream. Americans love garish toys tinged with plastic high tech and the ubiquitous "New, Improved!" label--skateboards with polyurethane wheels, very square exotica from a Hungarian mathematician...
...shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles a few pence when they decided to play bingo. Di proved lucky, walking off with a set of plastic spoons and forks, just the thing for the next royal picnic. Charles won nothing. During the 90-minute visit, Diana demonstrated her concern for the family budget. Told that tickets for a local disco night of reggae and soul music were going for $3.78, she mentioned that the price was steep. Informed...
...Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) and bought the Calvins, it is now time for the next artistic level: the Brooke Shields doll. Beginning in April, LJN Toys will flood toy stores with some 2 million Barbie-size, $12 replicas of Brookie in a hot-pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully sat through several modeling sessions while the doll was fashioned. The first versions of the doll did not measure up to the standards of Mother Teri Shields, 48, who rejected one sample because the dimple...
...heads a newspaper syndicate and is president of his nation's most powerful association of business interests. Still, aging Fritz Tolm is a good choice for the job. He is not one of those suspect postwar tycoons who have had their SS tattoos removed by a discreet plastic surgeon. He ran a liberal paper, has been a scholarly author (The Rhenish Farmhouse in the Nineteenth Century), and is a bird watcher and armchair environmentalist. So the profits and honors roll in, the guilty conscience thrives, and poor old Tolm gives up bicycle riding because he cannot go out without...