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...addition to the T-shirts, the stores sell hats, bags, mugs, shot glasses and thimbles--any tacky souvenir, you name it and it's there stamped "QUEBEC" in cheesy letters. When my brother went to Quebec on a school trip, he bought my mother a set of cheap plastic measuring spoons shaped like frogs from stores. They've long since broken...
...TOUR BOOKS describe Old Quebec as a colonial town. But this is not an old town, or even a rebuilt one. It's as artificial as the global villages in Epcot Center. Everything in Old Quebec is made of plastic, somebody's idea of what an old European town would have been like if Walt Disney had been around to design...
Reidy's minicart sold mostly by word of mouth until he found the right check-out line at last year's International Gift Fair in New York. Maybe you can't take it to a minimart, but with a plastic liner, the chrome-plated version can be used as a wine cooler, a salad bowl or even a purse. Reidy says some Rolls-Royce dealers give the 24-carat gold-plated model to upscale Santas, who use it to deliver a set of car keys. Sales so far: 15,000. If you can afford it, check...
...group of youths were creating a disturbance at the rear of Loeb Drama. While conducting a threshold inquiry, a clear plastic bag was sticking out of the suspect's pocket, which appeared to be marijuana. The suspect was arrested and evidence was secured. This will be sent to the state lab to be tested...
Hasbro is offering Monster Face, a life-size plastic skull that comes complete with "blistering boil," "nose slime drip" and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...