Some airlines have returned to using real glassware and silverware in first class, rather than plastic or paper, he noted.

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Writers vied to see who could heap the most scorn on the allegedly boring conformity of that receding decade, drawing supercilious caricatures of middle-class men and women of the era as superficial, plastic figures.

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There aren't very many people and the plastic roofs seem out of place under what used to be tidy, middle class brick houses.

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