Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in this century, the humorist Stephen Leacock said the American innocent must prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...
...hair dyed the darkest shade of no-one-understands-me seemed to claim their place in the Zeitgeist. Launched in 1988, the now defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those who wear tube tops. In 1989 came the cult film Heathers, featuring a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as a teenager who undiplomatically cleanses her social pool of its more loathsomely superficial members. And throughout it all brewed the Riot...
...Mantle shunned giving autographs to kids and professional ballplayers were not the boy scouts they made themselves out to be. The book became a best seller, but Bouton was condemned by his peers. After retiring in 1970, he became a TV sportscaster and entrepreneur, creating Big League Chew bubble gum. Currently working on two baseball-related screenplays and a musical version of Ball Four, Bouton still pitches in an amateur league...
Every stick of gum, bag of chips and candy bar vanished, frustrating residents who were forced to endure a weekend without sundries...
...gum-chewing adolescents provide the mayor's office with a window on the problems that face inner-city youths...