Word: forks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote and illustrated that moved him to the top of the anemic children's book field. Most widely read is Where the Wild Things Are (1963). It is the story of naughty Max, who is sent to bed supperless for, among other things, chasing the dog with a fork. Clad in his "wolf pajamas," Max petulantly transforms his bedroom into a jungle and sets off to become King over a race of easily cowed creatures who seem to be the offspring of the Minotaur and a Teddy bear...
...Americans have had a lot of experience being cheated and exploited when they eat out, and they feel unsure of themselves." McDonald's has designed a place to neutralize this anxiety, a place that does not make a customer feel he will not know how to use his fork...
...about the people up here," complains Vic Vickery, 35, an assistant drilling superintendent for British Petroleum. "We can't even have a gun here to protect ourselves against bears. We had four grizzlies come in the other day and we had to chase 'em off with a fork lift...
After leaving SRI,* Geller volunteered to demonstrate his powers to TIME'S editors. Last month he appeared at the Time-Life Building in Manhattan and projected thoughts and images, claimed to read minds and caused a fork to bend-supposedly by using psychic energy. After Geller left, Professional Magician James Randi, who had been present, duplicated each of his feats, explaining that any magician could perform them. The fork bending, said Randi, was accomplished by sleight of hand; after distracting his audience, Geller had simply bent it with his two hands...
...philosophy of semantics there is a standard rhetorical question: Is it progress if a cannibal eats with a knife and fork? Similarly, if society is sexist, is it altered when its language is revised? Or do its attitudes remain when its platitudes change? The prognosis is not good. Words, like all currency, need to be reinforced with values. Take away the Federal Reserve and its dollar bill is waste paper. Take away meaning and a word is only noise. Changing chairman to chairperson is mock doctrine and flaccid democracy, altering neither the audience nor, in fact, the office holder. Despite...