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...Lunchbox." Well kiddies, you remember those little metal cases with the smiling faces of Paul, John, George, and Ringo. "OK, I have 50 cents, $2, $4, $5, $6...$10.50 once, twice, sold!" The crowd snatches up other rarities: a Beatlemobile, made of paper and string, for $10; a Revere plastic model of Ringo, just like your favorite songbird or racing car, for $11. Joe picks up a hand-painted sign reading, "Koo Koo Koo Joop." "Whoever can tell me what book Lennon got this word from gets a free album." Purists should know tangential questions like this. Why, just...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: Nostalgia for the Pepsi Generation | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

...further promote and enrich the fund, Revell Inc. has started to make a series of plastic model kits of endangered animals such as the white rhinoceros and the California condor; each kit contains a leaflet describing the plight of the animal and the fund's efforts to help. Says Christopher Dann, the fund's deputy director: "Besides paying us a royalty, Revell is allowing us to start a dialogue with 800,000 children and to build a constituency for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Pandas for Preservation | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...rolled into one, but like nothing so much as a glorified Davis Square). There was also a nice number in the Super-Sol in Jerusalem, although I would like to point out that the Supermarket on Ibn Gvirol in Tel Aviv would have made the point about Israel's plastic culture after the Six-Day War much more tellingly. The obligatory Bedouin shots (you can almost hear the travelogue voice-over "And here these strange people of the desert...") had some nice colors too. And the last long sequence of a shell-shocked Israeli soldier re-enacting his trauma...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: A Breach of Promise | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

Police said that the explosion had been caused by a 10-lb. plastic bomb, planted under the cannon. Two minutes before it went off, a man identifying himself as a member of the Irish Republican Army phoned the London Daily Mirror saying: "We are planting bombs." He failed to say where the bombs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Terror at the Tower | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...sequins perhaps, but glitter and lots of it. Sprinkle glitter in shaker cans for the face. Plastic mirrors for bracelets. Reflecting collars, spangled spacesuits, and gloves with dog-pad mirror plates. Jobriath designs all the costumes himself. He considers the outfits an integral part...

Author: By Michiko Kakitani, | Title: Glitter, Glitter, Toil and Titter | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

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