Word: gum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wait a second here. The choice was a) going to Aruba, or b) hanging out with the gum-smacking queen of all time, and you picked Tonya...
DIED. WALTER DIEMER, 93, creator of a chewy, rubbery substance better known as bubble gum; in Lancaster, Pa. An accountant for the gummaker Fleer Corp. in the 1920s, Diemer tinkered with gum recipes during his spare time. Bubble gum--later marketed as Dubble Bubble--was an experimental mistake, but local kids bought out his first 5 lbs. of the stuff in a single afternoon...
...Wrigley's spearmint gum...
YOUR SPITTING IMAGE Researchers have figured out how to analyze DNA in saliva to identify susceptibility to gum disease. As a result, doctors may one day use saliva instead of blood to detect a host of gene-based diseases...
...Slater's teen romp Pump up the Volume) and many others better left unsaid. Only until midway through this composium of classic cuts does anything of real quality appear. This unfortunate CD makes the Pixies out to be a punk band big on dissonance who also dabble in bubble gum radio pop from album to album. Even some of the better songs on this CD have been curiously replaced with slowed down versions that sound like a cut from a Pixies reunion concert 25 years from now. "Gigantic" has Kim Deal wailing at about half the speed of the original...