Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American representative Dwight Jenkins said hiscompany is also trying to cash in on currenttrends with their new oversized gum, "Mondo...
...targeting kids aged 12 to 18," he said."They like large pieces of gum, and we're callingit 'jumbohunk." That's a pretty hot word for youngkids right...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers is provide you with "poster gum," Which is basically useless. Fine other ways to hang pictures, or get used to the minimalism of blank walls...
...same will do just fine. Maybe the tunes are less ersatz Beatles than upscale Archies: gourmet bubble gum. Maybe some of the lyrics took less time to write than they do to sing. Maybe the entire album marks Ringo's retreat to the simple life. But to this battered ear, the stuff sounds like music. The highlight is the mesmeric thumper After All These Years, Ringo's anthem to "traveling the world in a rock 'n' roll band. It's in my blood! It's in my blood!" Ours too. This is retro-rock to stir any '60s survivor. Rise...
...breed of young boys will lack this vital entre‚ into the female world. Offering a stick of ossified gum will no longer spark intergender friendships. Sure, boys can always substitute Bazooka (owned, incidentally, by Topps) or Trident, but it won't be the same. It will lack the cultural connotations, the comforting affiliation with the national pastime...