So the next time somebody calls you arm candy, think of a life-sized, bright-red wrapper, with a real-life woman stuffed inside.
These are baskets of mutual funds clad in a scanty life insurance wrapper that bestows on them a tax deferral.
But they have been doing a great job keeping others off their home turf.Insurance companies, too, have responded to the mutual-fund threat by developing their own retail funds, usually packaged in a life-insurance wrapper.
"A cucumber wrapped in plastic needs only about 1.5 grams of plastic in its wrapper, but that extends the life of the product from about three days to at least 15 days, and when you look at the effort and environmental impact of growing a cucumber, the water and the fertiliser and all the rest, you can see we are preserving resources".
The Wrapper, handmade in Scotland, started its life at local school fairs.
I'm supposed to know by now that beepers beep and lights flicker and pointless or malfunctioning technology contributes inanely to the daily journey through life, same as discarded candy wrappers, fast-food litter, plastic grocery bags.
Being in this sense an incarnation of the "Russian spirit," Shishkin's paintings entered everyday life in Russia, becoming the decoration on candy wrappers and illustrations in textbooks.
I rent a barn which is a repository of everything I've saved from my life, including food packaging – lolly, sweet and chocolate wrappers, pertinent to different times, like the Double Decker given to me by my first girlfriend.
The detritus of urban life litters the streets of Boerum Hill: candy wrappers, soda cans and other jetsam, much of it cast off by people walking through on their way to downtown Brooklyn.
It's not a religion, it's a way of life," he says, taking a taco out of its plastic wrapper and munching on it.
