Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only effective during the first few weeks of pregnancy. It induces a miscarriage by interfering with the production of the hormone progesterone, which helps soften the lining of the uterus. Without progesterone, the surface of the uterus breaks down, causing menstruation and expulsion of the fertilized egg...
...Fanny, Mary (Rachel Siegel), and Alexandra (Jessie Cohen) near our century they encounter the detritus of the '50s--egg beaters, "I Like lke" buttons, phonograph records, a big inflated banana...
...capitalism, or for a semiotical analysis of post-war America. Yet the play's treatment of kitsch goes no farther than to make the point that '50s consumer products would look pretty weird to Victorian dames. For example, during their voyage through time the intrepid adventurers keep coming across egg-beaters. "Totem!" "Talisman!" "Taboo!" they conjecture, and develop the practice of spinning the beaters at one another. They seem to be voiding the egg-beaters of signifying power and revealing them as empty signs, which makes no sense. Yet the two-hour kitsch fest invites this sort of analysis...
...Cole reported that he pitched an egg 350 feet to Heller, who caught it without cracking the shell. That figure smashed the existing record and was forwarded to the Guinness Book, which published it in the appendix to its 1980 edition. The two appeared in three subsequent editions of the world record book...
Heller says he and Cole decided to see if they could lie their way into the Guinness Book. By 1984, Guinness had apparently figured out the fraud. The official world record for egg throwing now stands at 318 feet...