Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jelly-bean ice cream had existed in the first quarter of the century, soda jerks would have translated it into cocky fountain lingo. Dickson has compiled a marvelous glossary of such wise-guy locutions, including "Hoboken special," which for some reason signified a pineapple soda with chocolate ice cream, and "twist it, choke it and make it cackle" for a chocolate malted with an egg (twist presumably for the twisting of the malted-milk beater, choke for chocolate, and cackle, of course, for the chicken that laid the egg). New scoop shops do not seem to have developed such...
...gear-including a computer hooked up to a U.P.I, news wire-that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says he: "Theater for the home is already here. A media room becomes a focal point for the family. You make your own popcorn, make sodas at the fountain, drinks, barbecue. I have over my sons and daughters and grandchildren. It's total information. It's total entertainment...
Tipped off by another competitor, a female official at the Miss U.S.A. Pageant in Biloxi, Miss., hauled Deborah Fountain, 25, Miss New York State, backstage and unceremoniously yanked down the top of her swimsuit. Gads! It turned out that Deborah had added a little, er, pomp to her 35-23-35 circumstance. Explaining that she had lost 15 lbs. after the recent death of her younger brother, Miss New York admitted that she had padded the suit's bra with foam. When the strategy bounced back, Miss U.S.A. organizers expelled her from the competition. Fountain countered that some...
...days. Singing is harder to do now." His friends are not convinced. "Bobby has the image of himself as being worn out," scoffs Radio Producer Jean Bach. "It isn't true." And Short himself seems uncertain. "A friend of mine told me that I'm a constant fountain of youth for people who come to the Carlyle," he says. "They come year after year, season after season, and it's a going-back for them, a way to relive special times of their lives. And I suppose that enabling them to do that...
...Thoughtfully, Philip Morris has installed a parquet wood floor, "easy on they eyes and easy on the feet," as the brochure puts it. And to aid the workers further, the management installed "floor to ceiling, glare-resistant" windows that look out on gardens, foliage, lawns, reflecting pools and a fountain...