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...taste is as smooth. This film is all tanned bodies against blue workshirts against a deep Southern green--everything looks great, and the redneck myth is comforting: the reflecting sunglass man did as much for the stereotype of southern law enforcement as Red Man chewing tobacco. Paul Newman sings "Plastic Jesus...
...include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school"); and a corpse in a plastic bag named McFee...
About 503 million credit cards are inuse in the U.S. today- -proof enough that "plastic money" is replacing the folding kind. But the demonetization process is expensive. Merchants who routinely accept credit cards add a credit service surcharge of anywhere from 2% to 8% to the price of their product or service. Though cash customers do not benefit from the credit system, they in effect help to subsidize it because they pay the higher prices too. The situation smacked of price fixing to the nonprofit Consumers Union. So last February it brought an anti-trust suit against the most prestigious...
...only a quarter. This just may be the cheapest bar in Cambridge. Whitney's carded a date when we tried to go there after a movie, and I don't think they really encourage a student clientele. Nowadays Whitney's is comfortable, although it has been a little plastic ever since the building was refurbished about two years...
...large rawbone man with a swarthy face got out of the pickup truck. He had on black plastic sunglasses and a very crew cut. A boy about fourteen got out of the truck with Will...