Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harper. As a gum-chewing gumshoe named Harper, Paul Newman stirs awake, forces open his burnt-out baby-blue eyes, and begins to assess the odds against his peace of mind. His Los Angeles office is a rat's nest where the private eye sometimes holes up to sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that...
...With the stress on early sophistication, can anyone doubt that somewhere an enterprising genius is planning contraceptive bubble gum...
...young yé-yé set has been crossing the street from St. Germain-des-Prés's venerable Les Deux Magots and swinging into Le Drugstore for a short-order hamburger or a fairly auhentic banana split. What with its dazzling array of drugs, chewing gum, model airplanes and racks full of Playboy, the delights of Le Drugstore are inexhaustible. But now there is a new- and equally exotic- rendezvous: an English pub, inevitably called the Sir Winston Churchill, right there on the Champs Elysees, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe...
...Name a song by Lonnie Donegan besides Does your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight...
...thirty minutes went much too fast. It started with the narrator's "put your gum under your seats," zipped through a catchy theme, and within minutes, the Caped Crusader and Robin the Boy Wonder were risking their dedicated lives in a effort to rid Gotham City of crime. Adam West stars at Batman; even lacking a size 48 chest, his portrayal is excellent. Batman's young ward is played by Burt Ward, who is everything we remember from drugstore newsstand days...