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Others danced to the music of Joey Val's five-man band, watched "Happy Days" and "Space: 1999" between spans of election coverage, or joined in "We Want Joe" cheers led by a small group of Charlestown women wearing styrofoam Timilty hats and Timilty banners across their chests...
...that heritage, it is dying. The souvenir shop of the famous Ryoanji temple in Kyoto sells boxes of tiny oblong sugar candies. The boxes are exquisitely plain, made of thin strips of unpainted pine. But touch one with a cigarette and it melts: the pine is, in fact, printed Styrofoam...
Night arrives and the Young Eternal Souls from St. Louis replace Professor George Wald at the microphone. Two kids spray-paint a sidewalk red and blue. It is too dark to read their message. The Commons is sodded with cans, lunchbags, styrofoam cups and leaflets. The trees are strung with red, white and blue lights, with some green ones over by Park Street...
...stumbled frantically down the sloping rough to the left of the par-3 16th, through teeming mobs of Ban-Lon, Bermuda, cotton, Rayon double-knit and polyester, past the suspicious tournament marshals with the bright red shirts and the white styrofoam pith helmets, and on up to the place from which the players and their caddies had to exit the 17th green. "The man who leaves this green with the lowest score is gonna win the tournament," I said to a red-faced, red-eyed young man with a potbelly and glasses and a Budweiser flop hat who was sitting...
Another large New York taxi fleet, Scull's Angels, is intent on decorating the passengers' interiors. The company will soon present patrons between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. with a free box containing orange juice, dry cereal, milk, a Styrofoam bowl and a plastic spoon, all of which could add to backseat squalor. Though Scull's fleet is owned by famed Art Collector Robert Scull, there are no plans to mellow the yellows' interiors...