Word: glue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief, glorious moment, the Left was united. Trotskyists and Marxists, Social Democrats and Centrists, all mixed in harmony. It was just after the Writers' Congress, in 1936, when Leon Blum's Popular Front government came to power. Fascism was the common enemy and the glue of disparate ideologies...
...borrowers be thwarted? There are attempts. Some hopefuls glue EX LIBRIS stickers to the inside covers (clever drawings of animals wearing glasses, and so forth)-as if the presence of Latin and the imprint of a name were so formidable as to reverse a motor reflex. It never works. One might try slipping false jackets on one's books-a cover for The Secret Agent disguising Utility Rates in Ottawa: A Woman's View. But book borrowers are merely despicable, not stupid; they tend to leaf before they pluck. Besides, the interesting thing about the feeling of loss...
...drink, though, has not yet caught on strongly at home. Many hard-drinking Irishmen prefer to stick with their traditional whiskies and foaming pints of Guinness Stout. In some pubs the cream liqueurs are called liquid glue. With sales abroad so strong, Gilbeys has scarcely missed the local business...
...self-inflicted generators of will-o-wisps, video games symbolize and intensify our collective hallucinations. In a republic pasted together from factions, only the lowest common denominators can supply the glue, so the delusion runs. Video games exist to make money for their owners; their appeal made as broad and base as possible. Ironically, the simple pictures that glare so phosphorescently will sponsor only further fragmentation, not greater unity...
...smell of airplane glue hangs heavy in the aisle of Woolworth's model department. There is everything here, from a 1979 Chevy Blazer (what kind of kid assembles these?) to a replica of the Flying White House, the Boeing 747 also known as the Doomsday Plane where the president will go to sit and watch his country incinerate. It is, the box promises, an exact duplicate of the model that sits at Fort Edwards...