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...this Friday, a dark curly-haired woman sits on one of the bus' blue and red plastic seats. Eventually she is joined by 11 other women. No men are present...
Investigators believe the suspect coins began entering the country as early as March 1988, but the counterfeits were discovered only last month, when a Tokyo firm tried to deposit 1,000 coins with the Fuji Bank. Because the amount was large and the coins' protective plastic covers appeared slightly more purple than the standard issue, Fuji officials asked the Bank of Japan to check them out. By examining the coins under a microscope, the officials discovered tiny flaws that confirmed the coins were not genuine...
Some glue! In both cases party membership in the provinces was more like plastic explosive...
...work is certainly meant to be experimental, and the set is powerful in that it places the audience in a sterile, foreign world. The set consists of three lamps, a piano, and a bed. Black plastic, splattered with red paint, stretches across the floors, the walls, and the furniture. A clear plastic sheet serves as the patient's bedsheets. The set, probably unintentionally, reinforces our distance from Alex and inhibits our empathy...
...dashing headlong into the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Boston University's president, John Silber, was asked if he'd gleaned any early lessons from his introduction to politics. Said the former philosophy professor with characteristic snap, crackle and pop: "It advises me to be less interesting, to learn to speak plastic, so that no one has the slightest idea what you're talking about...