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...important that the people at Harvard don't think I'm a patsy to the corporations," Sullivan says, clicking open the door to his blue, vinyl-roofed Volare. "And if they do, they can just ask the people around here," motioning to the greyness of North Philadelphia...
...thing about Suckerman, the clinging vinyl critter, is that he doesn't stick. Don't believe the box. He simply doesn't grip most surfaces. Despite the suction cups that bulge from his body, he makes but the feeblest attempt to cling to the wall of the Jordan Marsh toy department, bouncing off again and again with his shallow vinyl grin intact...
That's what 74,500 fans in Denver's Mile High Stadium must have thought as their Broncos' cheerleaders, the Pony Express, skittered onto the field in glittering t & a (for team spirit and ardent rah-rah-ing) costumes of halters, miniskirts, gloves and white vinyl boots. But wait. That cheerperson in the middle, wasn't she a little flat of chest and hairy of hide? No wonder. It was TV's Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy) filming for an upcoming sequence, Hold that Mork! So it was all a drag? Not for the Broncos...
Next day, the band arrives at the school, amid the principal's "final solution"--a massive vinyl-burning. We watch horrified as Who's Next, Sticky Fingers and Rocket to Russia go up in foul-smelling smoke. But Soles breaks into the principal's office and, with the P.A.'s aid, turns Lombardi into "Rock and Roll High School." The kids go wild, the Ramones break into "Do You Wanna Dance," and in a scene of mayhem they rip the school apart--in the end actually blowing...
...thin blue vinyl notebooks that he takes to Tokyo, Carter will carry a proposal to set up an international corporation that would fund efforts to develop synthetic fuels?for example, the conversion of coal into liquid fuel...