Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trend number two: condoms. The day has passed when you could get a thrill by walking into a drug store full of old ladies and ask for a box of condoms. Now that "riding bareback" is as dangerous as wearing a Springsteen t-shirt in Lebanon, even the old ladies are clamoring for them. The fabric of the eighties is latex...
Here's how my plan works vis-a-vis condoms: every time somebody wants to have sex, they have to look at the brand name on their box of condoms. Since sex is, ideally, a pleasurable activity, the visual image of the brand name will be strongly reinforced in the user's mind...
...imagine, for example, a hypothetical condom with the words "Rutger Fury!" printed liberally all over the box, wrapper, and condom proper. Not only will sex become more pleasurable for the user with such an exciting message prominently displayed, but the consumer will form pleasurable associations with my name. After this I would only have to put my name on any other shoddy product to rake in dollars like so many dead leaves...
...Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion, and is now trying to make a comeback. Battles raged throughout the week between Amal militiamen and Palestinian fighters. In Beirut a relentless Amal blockade of Palestinian camps forced thousands of starving residents to adopt extreme measures to feed themselves (see box). In southern Lebanon, Israeli warplanes struck Palestinian guerrilla bases outside the port of Sidon...
...cutoff, they still could not round up the two-thirds majorities needed to override a certain presidential veto. Dodd doubts that the issue will come to a Senate vote. Says he: "I'm not sure if it makes sense to hand the President a victory right out of the box...