Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this frenzy of gold MasterCard and gold Visa card offers in the mail during the past two months," says Cynthia Barnes, 28, a computer engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in suburban Chicago. "We got three of them in one day last week." The proliferation of plastic astonishes even bankers. Says John Godfrey, senior vice president and chief economist of Jacksonville-based Barnett Banks of Florida: "I'm amazed at the number of mailings I receive at home." He promptly throws them...
...Jackson says. "You feel loved in his films. Steven never sleeps, never rests at ease. Last year, during the Victory Tour, I was on vacation with him in the Hamptons. But instead of vacating like everybody else, he found a Betamax and we made movies. He put a plastic bag around the whole camera, taped it up and shot underwater scenes in the swimming pool. I worked the lights. He is constantly creating, because making movies is like playing. He will always be young. I love Steven so much, it almost makes me cry. He inspires me more than anybody...
...sandwich and two candy bars. So every day that summer I went in my suit and hung out with directors and writers and editors and dubbers. I found an office that wasn't being used, and became a squatter. I went to a camera store, bought some plastic name titles and put my name in the building directory: Steven Spielberg, Room...
...channel these fears until I began telling stories to my younger sisters. This removed the fear from my soul and transferred it right into theirs. One story was about the old World War II % flier who had been rotting in our closet for 20 years. I took a plastic skull you buy in a model shop and put a flashlight inside so the eyes and face would glow; then I put my dad's World War II aviator cap over the skull and put goggles over the eyeholes. At night, I'd dare them to peek into the closet. They...
...right to the tracks and watched the trains crashing. My dad said, "If you break your trains one more time, I'll take them away!" So I took his camera and staged a great train wreck, with shots of the trains coming in different directions and shots of little plastic men reacting. Then I could look at my 8-mm film over and over and enjoy the demolition of my trains without the threat of losing them...