Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of children's TV programming are flexing muscles in a number of arenas. In September, just three days before its new children's schedule was | set to debut, CBS abruptly withdrew The Garbage Pail Kids, a cartoon show based on the gross-out series of bubble-gum cards by that name. The network denies that it caved in to pressure, but the cancellation came after a barrage of complaints from parents and CBS affiliates...
...life." John credits Cissy with teaching their daughter "how to talk, walk, stand, project, greet people. She took care of Whitney's teeth, got involved with how she dressed." Cissy was a strict and loving mom. If she thought Whitney needed a spanking, Whitney got one. "Cracking gum or sitting with your legs open were considered unacceptable," Whitney says, "and I'd better not come back from the yard with scratched knees." Cissy says Whitney "didn't date young. I didn't allow it. Period. But she did go through a rebellious teenage phase, mostly small stuff: staying out late...
...search of heroes. The main consumers of the cheaper cards are six- to twelve-year-olds, with a smattering of older fans. To capitalize on their voracious appetites, the top three manufacturing concerns still sell a basic candy-store staple: 40 cents packs of 15 or 17 cards with gum, stickers or other bonuses. All the companies appeal to better-heeled and older baseball nuts. Topps, for one, markets more than a dozen specialty issues, including bronze and silver replicas, through hobby dealers. The company's deluxe "Tiffany" set of glossy cards on heavily coated paper stock in serially numbered...
...group of bubble-gum-chewing Westwood High School sophomores said they had won a school lip synch contest with their performance of Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen...
However, nicotine gum, which has been available in the United States for three years, is not without side effects, Hitchcock said. "It's not a magic pill," she said, adding that doctors often fail to provide necessary guidance when they prescribe the nicotine gum...