Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money really the only thing in life, he pondered. What had ever happened to hippie idealism, to the search for truth and beauty through illicit chemicals? Yet in trying to reconcile these opposites, Dewitt had hit upon the solution. It's all in my head, Dewitt thought. The whole banana, from the Peace Decade to the Me Decade, is contained within my own existence. I am the Walt Whitman of my times, of all times. After years of fruitless searching, Dewitt had ended his quest and a warm feeling spread from the center of his body to his enhausted limbs...
DEWITT IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A sense of humor. But some things are simply not funny. So when Dewitt rose from bed the other day, tripped over a banana peel, slid across a floorful of marbles, stepped on a rollerskate, tumbled down the staircase and fell into the swimming pool, he was not amused. It was all so derivative, for one thing. Not to mention the intense physical pain...
...available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip Kotler, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines and direct mail are the most effective way to target them. Kotler cites the Sharper Image, a top-of-the-line techie catalog, as defining U-DINK style...
Swimming to Cambodia is brilliant and entertaining and should definitely be seen. Its only drawback is that, as Gray says, "it's all true except the part about the banana...
...Here" is the middle of the Banana River, near the seaside town of Melbourne. "You could say we've sort of changed our optic. We don't want the house and the big stereo. Instead, we'll travel and work a little, travel and work a little. We also think about making a fortune so we can travel endlessly, but we haven't got very far with that...