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Americana: Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...
...demeanor reflect the in-your-face bravado of black urban adolescents and the rebellious fantasies of those in the suburbs. Taking direct cues from his audience, Simmons told Run-DMC to wear their dark glasses and black leather suits onstage and LL Cool J to retain his slouchy, bucket- shaped Kangol hat. He also encouraged Public Enemy to be politically controversial and BWP (Bytches with Problems) to be sexually explicit...
...dispute flared shortly after Kenner Products, which makes the Savage Mondo Blitzers line of action toys, said it will bow to protests against the gross-out figures by changing some of their names. Although such characters as Barf Bucket, Snot Shot and Bad Fart will remain on store shelves, they could become less irritating to parental ears...
...Those meetings were hard. The Japanese are good businessmen. They're solid. They have one position. They all know it. So those were not easy discussions, but they were meaningful. The numbers are very small -- the size they're talking about is a drop in the bucket. The point is, they are talking about what it would mean to sell cars through their dealers and to reduce the cost of distribution. The other part is up to us. We've got to display our goods, sell our goods, work very hard at whatever it takes...
...Niles was instructed only to listen and not to broach any new American ideas. Congress voted just before Thanksgiving to put up $400 million to help the U.S.S.R. and its republics dismantle nuclear weapons, but the Administration has yet to plan how it will disburse that drop in the bucket...