Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOTHERS OF INVENTION: RUBEN & THE JETS (Verve). Ruben is a put-on and a takeoff. Founding fathers of rock dada, the Mothers have a picnic singing their own freshly minted Golden Oldies ("Jelly roll gum drop got my eyes on you," "I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine"). The mock-sentimental collection is hilarious, at least for a while...
...Fifteen." Sharp snap of gum. The spade chick looked uneasily at Billy...
...chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble-gum machines, wind-up phonographs, toy steam engines, pieces of farm machinery, embossed advertisements-in fact, any of the detritus of industrialism. It is wanted...
...ground. Airlines have perfected the art of getting from A to Z, while ignoring the place where all flights begin and end-the airport. Ideally, an airport is a conduit, a place to leave; in reality, it has become a gigantic waiting room, where exasperations multiply like chewing-gum wrappers and cigarette butts on the floor. One woe is the need for a great trek, first as much as three-quarters of a mile from parking lot to terminal, then on to the departure gate through hundreds of yards of echoing, aseptic corridors. Another is the need to stand...
...average of four days to spot a broken phone; now the company claims that the breakdowns are reported in only two days. Still, weeks sometimes elapse before repairs can be made. As yet, the petty thieves have not been forced to go back to robbing poor boxes and penny gum machines...