Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century
By Stephen Fenichell
The Joys of Plastic Revisited
Our society's astonishment with plastic has hardened, ever since the 1967 film The Graduate and that famous quote (which opens this book) "I just want to say one word to you, Ben. Just one word."
Plastic is just one word, but that word barely captures its significance to our lives. It's ubiquitous, it's art, it's culture, it's business . . . plastic has made society a much more surface place.
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