Word: glue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THICKER THAN WATER (ABC, Wednesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). The summer's nadir. Julie Harris and Richard Long battle various relatives and each other for the pickle-factory fortune of their crotchety, dying paterfamilias. Harris and Long struggle like a pair of flies in a glue pot trying to wrest laughs from lines about death and pickles...
...Denhoff, an early researcher in the field, estimates that at least half of the 6,000 children on amphetamines in Rhode Island should not be. In Seattle, one researcher found several children taking the drugs when their restlessness actually was caused by poor eyesight or allergic reactions to the glue or dye in their schoolbooks...
...vitality and civilization. The men are so laconic that when they speak of the meaning of their lives they obtrude on the narrative unbearably. The central theme just istn't well expressed; the worst of cowboy life is represented by the roping of mustangs to sell to dogfood and glue factories. Rosalie, top cowboy Gay's gal, objects to this cruelty. Would she have raised a ruckus about the meaninglessness of Gay's life had he lived in a cowboy heyday and been able to profitably hunt and trap, or shoot Indians and harass settlers, or drive cattle instead...
...cast concrete planks resembles the way a child's popsiclestick toy raft is constructed. After the girders are put in place, the thin 60-foot-long planks are laid adjacent to one another and sealed weather-tight. In some cases, the sealing has been reinforced with epoxy glue, a cement that when hardened is stronger than the concrete...
...Export. Drug abuse has not been completely eradicated, of course. Youngsters now go in for glue sniffing and amphetamines, and a heroin arrest is still made occasionally. But Japan's success has been dramatic enough to awe visiting American experts. Can the Japanese system be exported to the U S.? Many U.S. experts think not. Japan's population is homogeneous, generally law-abiding and, where national goals are concerned, responsive to official appeals for cooperation. Americans are far more heterogeneous and resistant to authoritarian preaching. The young, in particular, insist increasingly on asserting their "individual rights." Many officials...