Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's a nostalgia song, called "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"; a shoplifting song, "Peanut Butter Conspiracy," about how you never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...
...Puff? The competition is hottest in presweetened cereals, which captured 31% of sales last year. Falling sugar prices are encouraging manufacturers to step up introductions of new brands: General Mills is bringing out Fruit Brutes, aiming to win kids away from Kellogg's Fruit Loops, and Ralston Purina is offering Fruity Freakies. Later this year Ralston will introduce Moonstones, a fruit-flavored cereal in crescent, star and sphere shapes, and Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs, which (or so kids will be told) stream from the mouth of a "computer-type monster" named Cecil when his "funny bone" is tickled...
...still downstairs, picking up crepe paper streamers, popping balloons, packing away costumes, and removing make-up. It takes them twice as long to change as it did during the run. No audience is waiting anymore. They are out in time to help sweep up the popped balloons and squashed fruit. By 11:50, American in Purgatory is packed away. Before the cast has even left Agassiz, the Godspell crew begins to screw in lights...
...sense, for ways to initiate other performers into her vision, so that she can move beyond the solo, the genre she's mastered, and explore the more complex dynamics of groups. She performed for the first time in Boston last spring with two members of her earlier troupe, Tropical Fruit Company. Last fall she gave a solo concert, and now she's trying again, "calling out," seeking to expand her range...
...That's the whole concept of immigrant labor, that the whole family works," Guizar said. He added that his father could have "followed the fruit," and worked year round, but instead stayed in Gilroy, working 12 hour days nine months of the year, so his children could attend school. Guizar's father never went to school, and his mother had only a fifth-grade education. "For us to gain the education they never had, that was very important to them," Guizar says...