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...special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white and blue plastic dinner plates called Glory. Some concessionaires, such as the G.I. Joe hot-dog vendors in New York, are virtually forced by the company to display the flag...
Roger was still there for the Coda; when the darkness of city life re-emerged as meth-amphetamine. It was a ritual victory for plastic and concrete, and Roger, after getting ripped-off and beat up, came back East. But since it all happens about a year late in Cambridge, he was just in time for the capitulation of Cambridge Hippic. He was all set, in a sense. Roger probably would not think of it in these terms. This is overview, and what Roger knows about his life now is what he new then: that he has to stay alive...
...acknowledged before: its own transience. It is a motley movement dominated more by high adventure-and imagination-than by any single name. Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria dug trenches in sun-parched deserts (they are silting over), Christo wrapped a portion of the Australian coastline in polyurethane (the plastic was removed), Britain's Richard Long imposed a geometric pattern on a field of daisies by plucking the blossoms (as any gardener could predict, new blossoms grew...
...Bratile St.) has strings of sausage hanging from its ceiling to symbolize its specialty. The sausages on the strings, however, are plastic. You may, at first, find this offensive. But if you train yourself to look down, you'll find ZZ not so bad. The sausages are inexpensive, and the dark beer is really good...
...Movies in Cambridge are much cheaper than they are in Boston, where we are treated to the spectacle of the Cheri charging $4.00 to see Woodstock. The Cambridge films tend to be a little less current than those shown in the plush plastic palaces in the other place...