Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, and Louisiana's Russell Long, the committee's ranking Democrat. Long and his House counterpart, Barber Conable of New York, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, do not command enough votes to pass a tax bill, but both have the power to grease, or gum up, the works. Long has said, only half in jest, "I think every Senator should have at least one amendment" to the tax measure...
Psychologist Maslow, for example, once wrote that he found it difficult "to conceive of feeling proud of myself, self-loving and self-respecting, if I were working, for example, in some chewing-gum factory . " Well, two weeks ago, Warner-Lambert announced that it would close down its gum-manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance...
...Awkward or not, she kept the onlookers on her side. She bore no resemblance to the young passionflower her merchandisers have hinted she is. But her giddy height and her astonishing face, with its hawk-wing eyebrows, deep blue eyes and full lips too fine for banalities or bubble gum, gave her what watchers have always known she had, a rare order of beauty not seen more than once or twice in a decade...
...sequence, though, Shrinking Woman starts to deteriorate. Schumacher and Wagner cop out; their cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world by shrinking the masses. They kidnap...
...chest of drawers and a neatly made bed. In the kitchen, where Zhao stands over the stove cooking lunch for his guest, there is little but the essentials. A small table covered with an oil cloth (and a glass bowl holding seven oranges and a package of Beechnut gum) serves for a dining room...