Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shorn by Jan rather than Don, or the other way round. A regular haircut with nothing fancy is $3, and a "style cut" is $4. A style cut with a shampoo is $7. All children who get their hair cut are given a penny to deposit in the bubble-gum machine. To take to the barber chair in Marshall is to take to the stage before an audience of whittlers...
...Americans, bursting into an England gone drab and gray and plagued with shortages of everything after four years of war, were nothing if not jaunty. Residents of Somerset still remember G.I.s tossing chocolate bars and gum out of passing trucks to goggle-eyed children. According to a popular gag, so much American chewing gum had been tossed in the fountains of London's Trafalgar Square that the pigeons there were laying rubber eggs...
THERE WAS NO REASON to go on and show the movie. The screen could have been the campfire, the screaming pre-pubescent bubble gum crowd a Browine troop, and the popcorn roasting chestnuts over an open fire. Before the screening began last Thursday at the Sack Charles, a local dee-jay stood up front and called out the ticket numbers of the proud winners of a giant Rick Springfield poster. I looked at my ticket stub blandly What would my roommate...
...send the training-bra set into hysterics, she sends back the requisite two dozen roses and the gift-wrapped new car. When he tracks her down to her favorite restaurant, she snubs him and his bubbly once again. "I don't know your music," she says. "It's bubble gum." Her taste: Tony Bennett...
...while he peed and demanded that he learn multiplication tables. Driscoll, who substituted for Thomas Derrah on opening night, spends most of the play gazing stupidly at his even stupider girlfriend Lorraine (Maggie Topkis): both play their roles with a frighteningly convincing ditziness. Topkins swills beers and chomps on gum picked off the floor as she sends out for pizza to swell her already-ample girth...