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...right, I've got my notes on the meeting right here," replied Carter, pulling a Bazooka buble gum wrapper from his pocket. "Ben was wearing green golf pants and a yellow shirt open at the neck, and I had on my jogging outfit. Ben told me I shouldn't ask him about the investigation or why he thought it was a good idea for Billy to register as a Libyan agent. So I didn...
Anyone who talks like that in Pocock is bound to attract the attention of Mrs. d'Amboise, a sculptor "who like all women of quality chewed her gum with her front teeth and rarely popped it within earshot of people with known academic degrees or season subscription boxes to the Opera." At 16, Peachum becomes Mrs. d'Amboise's model and a suitable future suitor for her ten-year-old daughter Columbine...
...energy crisis and warnings of limits give Americans a guilty fright; they know perfectly well that they have been squandering with an abstracted heedlessness, consuming on automatic pilot, like the jaws' dreamy working of a wad of gum. "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion," said the prophet Amos...
...legal framework for this issue began to take its modern form in 1953. New York Giants Catcher Wes Westrum had signed contracts giving two rival bubble-gum firms exclusive rights to put him on their baseball cards. The companies took their fight to court, where a federal judge recognized the "right of publicity," entitling celebrities to a cut of the profits rung up by merchandise bearing their likenesses...
...place to buy women's goods, such as lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable tip-off that an item in short supply will be delivered to a certain shop the following...