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...minutes earlier, on the Kurfurstendamm in West Berlin, I had encountered one of the few East Berliners who spoke enthusiastically to me of a single, reunified German state. He was a young man in his 20s, strolling with friends whose plastic shopping bags (embossed with Michael Jackson's picture) were filled with purchases. He wanted to move to the West (nearly 1,800 people a day are still moving) as soon as possible, he said. Why? He gestured to the store windows and the bright lights and said, "My eyes have been opened...
Harvard's own Albert Gore, Jr. '69 has done a commendable (but politically naive) deed by wrapping himself not in a flag, but in a non-biodegradable plastic bag. As Mr. Environment, Gore may never get himself elected above the Senate, but at least he's gutsy enough to choose a worthwhile cause...
...quite a shame that plastic bags and charred lungs aren't as attention grabbing as stars and stripes. They certainly do seem a lot-more important...
Another broadcast said the guerrillas attacked the city and suburbs with 32 grenades and plastic explosives, killing or wounding some Vietnamese soldiers and others who were drinking near ahotel. Vietnamese secret agents and Cambodianpolicemen were killed in the suburbs, thebroadcast said...
Biggest Letdowns. Kodak's disk cameras took fuzzy pictures. RJR's Premier, the so-called smokeless cigarette, tasted like burning plastic. New Coke wasn't the real thing. The Pontiac Fiero caught on fire, literally, then flamed out. Home banking via personal computer was for nerds. All-suite hotels went up, then stood vacant. And portfolio insurance may have helped cause the crash...