Word: souvenired
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...finger is a huge gold ring. The ring is made up of huge letters; the majascules arranged in the shape of a piano with diamond rings. It spells "STAMPS." "Elvis gave this to me," he says. He speaks softer when he talks personally. Gadlock is standing behind a souvenir table. Someone wants to know how much the 8 x 10 glossies are. Someone behind the table asks color or black and white. The customer decides a t-shirt is better. Or maybe a belt buckle. Or maybe a "Love McTender" penknife...
...meantime, patrons will have to make do with the shops and restaurants. Not that those aren't quite enough in themselves. Here, for example, are some of the Pedro/South of the Border souvenir items one can purchase in the 17 stores: velvet paintings, toilet seats, wall hangings, purses, change purses, ash trays, mugs (at least five varieties), salt and pepper shakers, toothpicks and holders, sun visors, jugs, shirts (uncountable selection), measuring cups, placemats, letter holders, desk organizers, soap dishes, "Pedro's paddles", baby pants, baby bibs, back scratcher, coasters, pencil sharpeners, x-rated viewing cameras, jumping beans, figurines of pedro...
...millions of Americans, Indian enterprise is synonymous with souvenir stands peddling leather moccasins and rubber tomahawks. But the Blackfeet and many other tribes across the country are determined to change that stereotyped image and provide employment on their economically depressed reservations...
Profits from the souvenir trade are expected to top $438 million by July. Insurance companies are also doing a brisk business, agreeing to underwrite more than $33 million in policies covering losses that would result from a change in wedding plans. When the estimated 600,000 to 1 million extra visitors arrive for the event, London's hotels, restaurants and tour organizers will have their day. A group called Corporate Capers has already sold 700 places next to windows in the office buildings along the wedding procession route. For $335, a rubbernecker gets use of binoculars...
...piece, the movie is astonishing in its particularity--every detail is right, from the shirt collars to the old-style Kleenex box in LaMotta's bathroom; from the night at the Copacabana (where all the Italians of that era used to go for their big night out) to the Souvenir Special Club (there are still dozens of them all over the Bronx--they all have Venetian blinds in the front plate-glass window and they're all fronts for bookie joints); from men eating dinner in their underwear to the opera on the radio...