Word: throwaways
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...their lyrical content is not, even they would admit, particularly interesting." SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music. "A single really is a three-minute throwaway piece of plastic," says Stock, as if he's talking about a miniskirt. "It's nothing greater than that. But it's entertainment...
What is lost when heroes vanish? Henry David Thoreau (a man who would have been at home in 1968) wrote an enigmatic throwaway line in Walden: "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle dove, and am still on their $ trail." The words, vaguely allegorical and haunting, have something in common with Paul Simon's "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" One has only to inspect the field of presidential candidates in 1988 to feel a sense of some hero loss in the drama of American life...
...says of his grief and drunkenness, "This has made me -- you know -- not as whatever as I usually am." In truth, he is much more whatever than ever. But Burn This prospers more from his talents than it suffers from his excesses, and a surprising number of its seemingly throwaway moments linger and ripen in memory...
Disposable razors have long been a consumer staple, and throwaway cameras are a new photographic fad. Now the latest items to use and lose are telephones. Several companies, including Mini-Phone, Diversified Communications and International Connectors, are selling an estimated 100,000 lightweight, disposable phones a year, and the market is growing fast. The best customers are not individuals but hospitals, which sell the phones to patients as a moneymaking venture...
...patient confronted with a hospital bill might feel he's entitled to everything in the room, including the phone." Philadelphia's Mercy Catholic Medical Center estimates that it saves between $50,000 and $75,000 a year by installing the discardable devices. Indeed, they have proved so popular that throwaway phones will soon be sold in the hospital's gift shop -- at 30% over cost...