Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BUGABOOS. In the wilder reaches of British Columbia, the two dozen peaks of the Bugaboo range are unique. No lifts climb the glaciers and forested hillsides. Helicopters airlift skiers to the mountaintops, and guides lead visitors down through deep powder. Good legs and advanced technique are essential; so is a fat bank account. A week, including helicopter lifts, runs about...
...Lampoon, and they fail to meet it. Between the Hearst Corporation's reputation for intellectual journalism and Helen Gurley Brown's personal style in running her magazine, most of the potential areas in which a parody can play get squeezed out. The distance between an article like "The Bugaboo of Male Impotence" (in the October genuine Cosmopolitan) and "The Myth of the Male Orgasm" is not that great. The Lampoon carries a picture with its story showing a guy holding crossed fingers behind his back and tentatively approaching a girl waiting for him, in bed. The Cosmopolitan story...
Genetic engineering is just in its earliest tinkering stage, but it is already seen both as a great medical hope and a bugaboo. By learning the secrets of the genes, science is increasingly able to alert couples who run an unusually high risk of passing on crippling defects; sometimes a warning is possible even before children are conceived. Tests can also discover disabilities in the unborn as well as in infants and young children before symptoms appear...
...cultural gap is violence, and violence has done admirably. The success and controversy of El Topo, The Devils, and Straw Dogs in the last six months are witnesses to the arrival of brutality at center stage--fresh copy for the press, love object for the cultists, and general bugaboo for the hysterically-minded...
...they meet the Knicks in the finals. Although the New Yorkers have less rebounding and scoring strength, they have a deeper and more versatile bench-and, like the old Boston Celtics, a relentless, almost mystical way of winning the big ones. If the Bucks can finally shake the Knick bugaboo, Coach Costello will have enough reporters and TV cameras around to fill any locker room...