Word: wrappers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaving the store, I cautiously opened my treasure, hoping to save the wrapper as a memory of the first hint of April. The old-style wax wrappers were salvageable, and I still have ones from almost 10 years ago in my room. But I new cellophane covering nearly disintegrated in my hand. So much for holding on to memories from childhood...
Cigars have a tobacco "filler," an internal "binder" and an outside "wrapper." Low-priced stogies are made of chopped tobacco filler, machine wrapped with rolled sheets of pulverized leaf, water and natural gums. Around 2.3 billion machine-made cigars are sold in the United States, down from 9 billion in 1964, when Americans briefly substituted cheap cigars for cigarettes in the wake of the Surgeon General's report...
...than an aphrodisiac. Still, if Friday hadn't padded her pages with psychobabble about women claiming their sexual destiny, and Simon & Schuster hadn't been willing to print anything to make a buck, Women on Top would be available only by mail and would arrive in a plain brown wrapper...
...weeks ago, the environmental artist Christo, wrapper of seacoasts, had 1,760 giant umbrellas implanted and opened in the bald, dun landscape of the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles (1,340 more were simultaneously opened in Japan). The art seemed very California, surreal, whimsical, harmlessly airheaded, vaguely haunting -- the umbrellas disconnected from practical function and somehow mocking the grand scenery: a conceptual joke. But then high winds rose. By a kind of sinister telekinesis, one of the giant umbrellas lifted out of the earth, flew across the landscape and crushed a woman to death...
...REVEALING. John Lennon and Yoko Ono posed nude for the album Two Virgins, thus earning it a plain brown wrapper...