Word: cereals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ramage says she uses soy milk on her cereal every few days, and often takes containers to her room despite the queries she attracts...
Travis D. Williams '97 recalls "painful memories" of growing up in Canada, unable to drink cow's milk or pour it on his cereal because of an allergy...
...those X-shaped planes (I know, I know, X-wing fighters) who look like they came out of Somerville's local Dunkin Donuts. In short, I was not literally raised on Star Wars; I did not eat, sleep, and drink Star Wars when I was a kid (Star Wars cereal, Star Wars bed sheets, Star Wars whole milk...
...great extent, of course, the success of a movie's merchandise depends on the success of the movie itself--kids won't eat the cereal of a movie they, and more importantly their friends, haven't seen. At the same time, box-office success does not always guarantee merchandising success--analysts cite Casper and Independence Day as two recent hit movies that disappointed their licensees. Much depends on how "toyetic" a movie is, in industry parlance, and the degree to which merchandise is sympatico with the film. Flipper licensed a camping set, "which is pretty funny," says director Shapiro, "because...
...predators, the easier it gets to deny all children in poverty the resources and nurture they need. If they're the predators, we must be the vulnerable prey--the only real innocents around. And this probably explains why we can blithely identify with the man-boy in the frosted-cereal commercial while demanding that child criminals be punished like actual men. What could be better than being a great big kid, free of both the responsibilities of adulthood and the disabilities of youth, while the real kids are locked up in prison...