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...terms, and obsessively concerned with self-expression. One boy insists that he wants to be a hoofer and comedian, though he is a pathetically inept dancer and his jokes fall flat. At one point, Joe (James Broderick) the café philosopher who dominates the stage, puts 27 sticks of gum in his mouth because he has always wanted to do it. When Saroyan says, "In the time of your life, live," one realizes almost eerily that there, 30 years ago, the cry was first raised about "doing your own thing...
...that assaults young minds with a pleasant barrage of sights, sounds and colors repeated over and over. Often the Muppets, ingenious hand puppets with all the comfortable soft sell of a favorite doll, talk about ideas. Short film clips are also used to great advantage, sometimes with bouncy bubble-gum rock music in the background...
...turns out to be the extreme in the antismog movement. "The smog here is very bad," she tells me. "I've been fighting it for twelve years. I have to put cream in my nasal passages, but sometimes my nose swells up anyway, and I chew gum. They say that helps. And I have to keep washing out my eyes. You know, they say that smog can affect your mental outlook, damage the brain...
...into the director, Ian's, VW and we drove over to the East Side. It was bright and sunny and warm outside. It was the end of June. It was incongruous. We arrived at O-Building and entered through the canteen, where patients can buy coffee and chewing gum. The yellow walls carried a huge mural of Snoopy and Charlie Brown and said "Happiness is the O-Building Canteen." Typical volunteer propaganda, I thought...
...trade talks last December, the Japanese were so uncooperative that the negotiations almost broke down. Out of dozens of items on the list for discussion, the Japanese agreed to liberalize imports of only chewing gum and pet food. In April, Japan eased restrictions on seven other items, but most were products as insignificant as boiled pig entrails. A veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even...