No one is going home empty-handed: the Muslim ladies are almost invisible behind a stack of Etro bags; the Italian woman with the Chanel tote is the new owner of a purse from the Prada outlet.
Susan Barbour moves around the room and passes out a stack of Ziploc bags, each containing a worn cotton T-shirt.
I got a stack of garbage bags and put eight liters of water in each one, tied them off, and made dumbbells.
"It was illustrated vividly at a hearing where a stack of 500 paper bags was two feet high and heavy and 500 plastic bags was two inches high," Mr. Christman said.
Harley found a loaded gun in Jerry's sock drawer, and the cop found a stack of one-ounce bags of pot in his closet.
In his study, under a blanket, beneath a makeshift table next to the drinks cabinet, my father had kept a stack of plastic carrier bags.
His robust, tiger-striped kitty, who is also named -- you guessed it -- Cat, was napping peacefully behind the counter on a stack of brown paper bags.
She had a stack of wrinkled paper bags with the word Extra printed on them, and she handed one to each of the stars as they came down the line.
Less edifying is Gabriel Kuri's "That Runs Through," a presentation of objects on a sheet of white backdrop paper, including a bag of charcoal, a stone on a stack of Financial Times, a bag of kitty litter and a wastebasket with a mop head in it.
Somehow, a stack of pro-plastic-bag flyers had appeared on the table while the audience's attention was elsewhere.
