Word: souveniring
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Rifkin, though, wanted to remember them. From each, it seems, he kept some souvenir. In his cluttered bedroom police found credit cards and driver's licenses. Other items were more poignant -- and pitiable. A shoe. An earring. A bra. A brooch...
...million visitors, and seasonal garden tours in April and October. She had White House police who served as guides wear jackets and slacks instead of uniforms to avoid intimidating the tourists. And everyone who thrills to the White House bathed in golden light by night is seeing another souvenir of Pat Nixon's attentive care of that historic home...
Those concerned about a nascent Hitler cult could easily find depictions of him throughout the city. A bare-assed rubber Hitler--smiling and saluting, of course--graced a few of the tacky souvenir shops along The Rambles, and the Nazi dictator's visage appeared in many other bodegas. Another store offered ID cards bearing the names of war criminals. No marginality here. The thought that some people have particularly sick senses of humor crossed my mind, but I found myself wondering. "Do people really think this shit is funny?" This is not the type of question, though, that...
...world that its shock value has gone flat. The first time you go into a gallery and see a 7-ft.-high toy bear in a striped T shirt inspecting the whistle of a London cop, all done in painted wood, faithful to the last hair, by some European souvenir manufacturer -- Koons, who probably couldn't carve well enough to do his own initials on a tree, makes none of his stuff himself -- the effect is, well, fairly unsettling. The second time you see it, it's just another Koons. The third time, boredom supervenes...
Under the blazing morning sun a hodgepodge of military vehicles falls into sloppy formation on the dunes near the Mogadishu airport. Somali children sneak through shell holes in a wall to beg for food and baksheesh. Marines shoot souvenir snapshots of each other as the convoy slowly takes shape...