Word: gum
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...When Hollywood made movies about Chinese people, it simply put white actors in "yellowface." The term is a misnomer. Whereas a white actor playing a black was obliged to dab cork to darken the visage, a white playing an "Oriental" character didn't change face color but applied spirit gum to give the eyes a higher slant...
...quadrupling of its first-quarter profits from the year before, Jobs can afford to be generous. As of next week you will be able to buy an entry-level Mac for $500 and a scaled-down iPod for $99. The new iPod is no heftier than a pack of gum, while the Mini Mac is smaller than your average Harry Potter hardcover...
...moving down a reception line and [the Prime Minister of] Singapore grabbed my hand and looked down the line about 30 feet to his wife and yelled, "Hey, honey, look, it's the M*A*S*H guy!" It's a damn good thing I wasn't chewing gum...
Last week countless hordes of U.S. children not only went to the movies once a week, listened to their radio favorites among 27 children's network programs (often reading comic books and blowing bubble gum at the same time), but spent millions of kiddie-hours squinting hypnotically at the 35 shows offered them on flickering television screens. The kiddies exhibited a leaping enthusiasm for the new and massive doses of entertainment offered by video. Overnight, almost every little boy and girl in the nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered periods which they spent outdoors between programs, they...
...kind of need” and “kind of want,” I caught glimpses of shoppers exclaiming over each other’s purchases. The skinny “’tween” girls snapping their gum and flopping their wrists while shimmying their pink-skirted boyish hips from side to side; the thirty-something couple holding up five shades of blue “onesies” for the infant drooling in the stroller; and my Savta, still mesmerized after all these years by the marble floors and bright lights of this American...