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...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...
...already had three drug stores within a mile or two of each other. Each was unique: Cadman's had been in business for over sixty years. Another stocked its shelves with an impressive menagerie of stuffed animals. The third had supplied me with bottle after bottle of pink, bubble gum flavored antibiotics, prescribed for my frequent childhood ear infections. Rite-Aid was a major threat to them all. The only bright point, it seemed, would be the store's beer section, which could prove invaluable for high school kids seeking some Genuine Draft on a Saturday night...