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By HAROLD MEYERSON
IT WAS A LINE that spoke to, and for, a generation. In "The Graduate," the 1967 film that depicted a young man's inspection and, then, rejection of grown-up American society, Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin is given a one-word bit of career counseling by one of those shallow and corrupt grown-ups at a shallow and corrupt grown- up cocktail party: "Plastics."See the full content of this document
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Years later, the line has picked up a meaning the makers of "The Graduate" couldn't possibly have anticipated. When the high school senior of 1967 - me - who thought then that the line was a brilliant expose of America...
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