In my carrier bag I had a can of shaving cream and some paper plates.
They cost $5 to $100, and are designed to look like various household objects: a head of iceberg lettuce, a can of soda and a can of shaving cream.
Never has it occurred to me — until this moment, clutching a can of shaving cream in my hand — that this plainspoken, plaintive Scots ballad was the very poetry of our lives.
A sample-size can of shaving foam warns, "Use only as directed," but evidently that was all the advice the graphic designer could fit on the little can, for no actual directions appear anywhere.
Jurassic Park's Dennis T Nedry is the overweight, sweat-prone, moral-free computer scientist who disables security systems in order to smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the titular park in a hollowed can of shaving foam.
After he inserted a $10 bill and punched numbers on a screen, the crowd watched a metal bin rise to collect a package of razor blades from one shelf and a can of shaving cream from another.
He developed a showstopping palate cleanser at the start of his set menu, in which the waiter dropped a mixture of lime juice, egg white, green tea, and vodka (out of what looked like a can of shaving foam) into a bucket of liquid nitrogen, at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit.
The tag-sale Barbies on the bathroom shelf, stripped of clothes and bracketing the can of shaving cream, the bathroom glass, and the electric razor that Cahill had given Matt for his birthday — he saw the dolls as the bait they were.
SAM 935, introduced in 1995 and upgraded annually, looks like a big can of shaving cream and has a crystal positioned inside the opening at one end.
