Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. Kesey may have quit the literary major leagues but can still be an exciting writer, whether describing a rampaging billy goat or a fatal car wreck in Egypt: "It's two flimsy Fiat taxis just like ours, amalgamated head on, like two foil gum wrappers wadded together. No cops; no ambulances; no crowd of rubberneckers; just the first of those skinny street jackals sniffing the drippings...
...merry '80s. Here is an upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...
...this accuracy holds much of the play's charm. The players are believable as athletes, both in appearance and manner. Situated in the bullpen at Fenway Park, complete with green walls, the actors are fully clad in Red Sox uniforms. An especially nice touch is the plastering of bubble gum all over the bullpen. Each could pass for a ball player, and the lone-lefty, Ripper, conjures up images of Boston's beloved spaceman Bill...
...spin on dialectical materialism. Nothing, however, can compare with her reception in Panama, where people have gone mad over La Donna. For almost two years, 23-year-old Wanna Be's have been curling their hair and donning lace. Both a soft-drink company and a chewing-gum firm have produced ads copying her from-bed-to- verse videos. "Even Michael Jackson did not produce such a frenzy," marvels Jim Truch Gomez, manager of the country's top pop station. When word gets out that the Mistress has a new look, expect another revolution...
...righteous pop thug is huge, ubiquitous, swaggering from one medium into the next and the next: he is a movie warrior, he is a TV cartoon character, he is a plastic doll, he is a music-video creature and now, in candy racks all over America, he is chewing gum--Rambo black flak, jagged, black raspberry bits packed in foil pouches and meant to resemble shrapnel...