Plum in Human Culture
Business
- In business, the color plum represents a business deal that is profitable—a plum contract. A plum job is a job that one is assigned to that has a high salary or the job may be a sinecure with good pay but not much work to do.
Credit Cards
- American Express has a credit card called a Plum credit card that has a higher credit limit and a lower interest rate than a regular credit card; it is only available to someone with a good credit rating.
Music
- The Electric Prunes is a psychedelic rock band formed in Seattle in 1966 that was popular among the hippies during the Summer of Love in 1967. They disbanded in 1970 and reformed in 1999.
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Famous quotes containing the words plum, human and/or culture:
“The plum my mother picked matured slowly,
The boy she dropped from darkness at her side
Into the sided lap of light grew strong....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)