Word: trinkets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Wendy walked out, I followed her, watching as she found the strange trinket in her purse. She looked at it, shrugged and went on her way. I hesitated, then turned back to go home...
...owned Indians caps, cups, mugs, mittens, magazines and every other trinket that would fit in my closet...
Bakker sits in a corner of the white couch in his trinket-filled Spanish- style living room, looking like a schoolboy with bad grades. His hands are clasped between his knees, and his eyes remain fixed on the large black leather Bible spread before him. His pasty white face carries a sad, dazed expression. He is plainly shaken by his fall from grace. "We've almost died," he says. "I want to tell you . . . the first five weeks was like living hell." He pauses and touches the Bible. "At times we really wished they would have put a bullet...
...hands-down the most festive booth ofall, the centerpiece of which was a windsurferemblazoned with the company's logo. A steadystream of students was drawn to the booth by aminiature wheel of fortune, because spinning meantwinning an IBM-insignia trinket, a balloon, a cup,or a notebook. And if you wanted popcorn, this wasthe place...
...cares about the Statue of Liberty? By modern high-rise standards, it is dinky, a dozen stories from head to toe. And by the standards of statuary, Lady Liberty is absurdly huge, unnecessarily literal, a giant trinket as vulgar as a sign on the Las Vegas strip. It is hardly an ancient monument. Except for Richard Morris Hunt's pedestal, the thing was not even Made in America. (Perfect protectionist irony: an imported patriotic icon...