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...course, as the Los Angeles Times said in an editorial, "Neither will they know the seasons, or incline to the breeze, and neither will they delight the eye with their variety. Probably next we will have plastic birds and plastic butterflies, a sort of Madame Tussaud's of nature that recalls what once was, before progress triumphed...
When archaeologists dig up Los Angeles in a few millenniums, they may be puzzled by some of the fossils they find along a 1.68-mile stretch of Jefferson Boulevard. For there, in a gesture of economy and perhaps utility, Los Angeles County has installed 900 plastic peperomias, pit-tosporums and ti palms, among other flora, to decorate the roadway...
...question in Washington was: How did Senator William Proxmire (D., Wis.) get two black eyes? Gossips ruled out a barroom brawl (he doesn't drink) or a domestic disagreement (he is separated from his wife). The Senator would only say, "No comment." The most likely explanation was blepharoplasty-plastic surgery to remove bags under the eyes...
...Friend--"All Singing, All Talking, All Dancing"--is just like an enormous plastic Christmas tree, thousands of gaudy decorations obscuring a very simple trunk, the girl-gets-boyfriend plot. The girl in question, Twiggy, gets the boy friend pretty much through divine right as star of the film and through no readily apparent merit of her own. As Polly Browne, understudy cum assistant stage manager of a seedy British theater, she is called out one day to replace the aging star (Glenda Jackson) who has hurt her foot in a tram accident. Remember, credibility is not the point. Just before...
What the hell is this?!," I shouted as I opened the promo kit only to find a plastic army helmet with the words "War is Coming" neatly stenciled across the front. The helmet and other equally ridiculous gimmicks were dreamed up by some under assistant West Coast promo man to announce War's first "solo" album...