Word: gummed
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...play called The Kitchen, by Arnold Wesker, again at the Loeb and directed by Peter Frisch. My part was that of a gum-cracking waitress and I chewed wads of Bazooka that I parked on my dressing table mirror when I wasn’t onstage...
...could Net surf or check my e-mail account, while a split screen let me simultaneously watch my movie. The airboard's base station - the size of a shoe box - doubles as a stand and battery charger. There's a slot for inserting a Sony memory stick, the gum-stick-sized cartridge used to store photos and other digital files...
...from the clubhouse. It's the sort of thing that would make the stereotypical balding, chaw-using, reticent baseball men we see in the movies spin in their graves. In baseball, after all, sitting quietly in the dugout in deep contemplation of the diamond and its secrets while chewing gum can be an appropriate reaction to a three-run homer. You stop actively cheering once you take off your little league jersey for the last time. Exuberance and professionalism aren't compatible...
...with a major U.S. label, Warner Brothers Records (owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of Time), which she hopes will elevate her into the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera pantheon. Back at home, Young has to contend with a gaggle of luk kreung clones who mimic her brand of bubble-gum pop. The hottest act now is a septet called, less-than-imaginatively, Seven, and three out of seven are of mixed race...
...thin as the simplistic "he-came-to-settle-the-score-with-someone-anyone-everyone" setup that drives Desperado. And Spy Kids is nothing if not a culmination of Rodriguez's starry-eyed fascination with slick, vivacious gadgetry, moving on from the guitar-case razzle-dazzle to electrically-charged bubble gum, satellite-dish wristwatches and, best of all, a plump, banana-yellow mini-submarine that becomes the center of a high-speed water chase...