Word: gum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presley at 31 is really changing his scene. Eleven years of living high on the hawg (his income from films and royalties averages about $6,000,000 a year) has emphatically porked up his appearance. His cheeks are now so plump that he looks like a kid blowing bubble gum-and his mouth is still so squiggly that it looks as if the bubble had burst. What's more, he now sports a glossy something on his summit that adds at least five inches to his altitude and looks like a swatch of hot buttered yak wool...
Lost Command, an Errol Flynn movie made without Errol Flynn, looks like one of those war pictures they used to print on bubble-gum cards...
...puts it, "is the tallest or the biggest in the world." The Svenssons were delighted to discover that American movies run continuously, but appalled at the debris under their seats. In one movie theater, Rune's feet literally got glued to the floor in the sticky residue of gum, candy and spilled soft drinks. Baseball bored him: "They just kept throwing the ball and missing it." Except in New York, visitors note, no American ever seems to walk anywhere. One English hiker set out across the Golden Gate Bridge, was chased by police who assumed he must be planning...
Sure enough. He was no more than 20 steps inside the main entrance of GUM, the Soviet Union's largest department store, when his eyes fixed on the deep decolletages of two young sales girls. There, hanging from their necks, were glittering gold crosses. No, they said, they were not Catholics, but faithful Komsomols (Young Communists...
...crosses had no meaning. They were merely the latest fad. Fashion, Chikin, fashion-and profit. GUM Buyer Klavdia Mikhailovna picked up the trinkets for 330 each, presumably from a Czech costume-jewelry firm, which has been flooding Eastern Europe with such baubles. Klavdia put them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia...