(Published: Wednesday, August 12, 2009)
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."
