Word: gum
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Even more gross is Barfo, a gelatinous goo manufactured by Topps, the bubble-gum company. The fruit-flavored candy is packed in squeezable plastic figures that extrude the substance through their mouths. Says a seven-year-old who savors the stuff: "When I think about it, it's disgusting." That alone should guarantee boffo sales for Barfo...
There have to be a few Bushmen, along about now, who are wondering if the process of de-Reaganization hasn't gone too far. With the tax switch clinging to their cheeks like the remnants of a burst globe of bubble gum, they must be asking themselves, Would the Gipper ever have got into such a mess...
...however, that moved W.L. Gore & Associates, the 32-year-old outfit that introduced Teflon products, from a glorified mom-and-pop operation to a company with 37 plants worldwide. Gore's 5,000 workers ("associates" in company parlance) turn out everything from electronics to a new dental product for gum regeneration. Associates are urged to take long chances. "At Gore," says Jeanne Ambruster- Sherry, a biologist who works in the company's sales-and-marketing division, "if you're not making mistakes, you're doing something wrong." Vieve Gore, 77, who co-founded the company with her late husband Bill...
...casino, a space as defiant of convention as it is of taste. Dumont has spurned the dark burgundies and jangling reds of most gambling halls in favor of a color scheme heavy on violet, turquoise, melon and, of course, bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down into some overeager gambler's decolletage...
Instead, the Gardner offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the return of the paintings. This ransom money -- "reward" is a euphemism -- may work, if it does not gum up the investigation with half the flakes and crazies from Boston to Miami. But it does not dispose of the ghastly possibility that one of the greatest of Vermeer's paintings (along with other things of lesser significance) may be destroyed by the thieves as too hot to handle...