Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disposable razors are one thing, but will anyone buy a throwaway camera? Fuji Photo Film and Eastman Kodak apparently think so. Their new rival models, both announced last week, combine film, plastic lens and a shutter into one small box. After shooting pictures, users will take the entire camera to a photo lab for film processing. Kodak's Fling, which could be available by the summer, will sell for $6.95 and take 24 shots. It contains the 110 film used in Kodak's Instamatic cameras. Fuji will begin selling its Quick Snap this spring. It will cost less than...
...almost any subject, Schlesinger is capable of striking grace notes, like his throwaway line on Aaron Burr: "A man of undoubted talents who, however, was trusted by no one in the long course of American history except for his daughter Theodosia and Gore Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger...
...effacing, spouts his mind with a mixture of candor and clumsiness. He seems convinced that it is his penchant for essaying pointed jokes, nothing more, that gets him in trouble. He even says that his blast at Robert McFarlane last week for giving "lousy advice" was meant as a "throwaway line." Says he: "I'm going to have to stop being witty...
...future. Indeed, the future was now, and adults were encouraged to behave like children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup...
...screenwriters and director Paul Aaron, they should be recognized for making a bad thing worse. The dialogue is such a hodgepodge of throwaway witticisms that it has virtually no substance...