Word: cake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistaking them. Some look like a cake mold capable of turning out angel food for 2,500. Others look like a louvered back door from a tract house in Brobdingnag, or a creature from a 1950s horror movie-the wretched spawn of reckless radioactive experimentation, the amazing colossal sand dollar...
...Avenue as "brand extension." Honda Motor Co. made sure its well-known auto motive name was prominently displayed on the firm's new power lawnmower. General Foods named its dessert-on-a-stick Jell-O Pudding Pops. Also in the testing stage: Jell-O Slice Creme, a freezer cake mix; and Jell-O Gelatin Pops, whipped gelatin on a stick. "The consumer is suspicious of exaggerated claims and therefore trusts certain brand names," says John Diefenbach, president of Landor Associates, a San Francisco design firm that advises clients on marketing...
...money out of their pocket?" They must realize it; the press, after all, has been keeping a running tab on the celebration for weeks. The point is, no one especially cares: not about the cost of the wedding-eve fireworks in Hyde Park ($16,000); nor the wedding cake (maybe $6,000); nor the entire jamboree (estimated conservatively at a million dollars...
Though I am a fool for swirls and toasted nutlings in 16% butterfat, and fresh peach or berry can make me weep with joy, unreformable junk food cravings still linger. As a wantonly spoiled New Yorker, I could enjoy a sublime birthday cake prepared by any of a dozen master patissiers. But for the last three birthdays I have insisted on a Baskin-Robbins Mickey Mouse with blue eyes and an orange necktie cloaking layers of English Toffee, Pralines 'N Cream and Jamoca Almond Fudge. And they have to tear me away at midnight to keep me from devouring...
...lambast a Wall Street Journal editorial that called on the Reagan Administration to "stop cringing every time Peking throws a tantrum," and give more help to Taiwan. Some Americans, an article by the New China News Agency said, believe that China is "a piece of cake to be sliced as they please...