Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Carlotta reappears at the end in a hot tub, telling Suwelo how she became a new-age musician, it is hard to believe she can have any important role to play. Yet Walker says the four "all vaguely realize they have a purpose in each other's lives. They are a collective means by which each of them will grow...
...remember names like Pepsi-Cola or Ford or Howard Johnson's. Impossible! So on a drive from New York City to Washington not long ago, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to stop for lunch at the next Howard Johnson's. A hot dog and some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic. But when that familiar orange roof loomed up out of the rain near Wilmington, Del., it turned...
...another piece of one's childhood is consigned to oblivion. The reason those hot dogs linger so deliciously in the memory is not the hot dogs themselves, actually, but the toasted buns they came in, and the yellow pseudobuttery glop that reduced the toasted buns to toasted mush, and the elongated white cardboard containers that held the toasted mush so that one could make a game of trying to gnaw on the hot-dog mush without getting one's hands and face entirely covered with the dripping glop -- a game that, to one's parents' despair, one invariably lost...
...really possible that Howard Johnson's simply disappeared, and without anyone saying farewell? No, the reality is more interesting. From the day in 1928 when Howard D. Johnson opened his first roadside stand, in Wollaston, Mass., to sell hot dogs and a rich chocolate ice cream of his own formulation (16% butterfat), the next half-century was largely a story of growth and profit. But that success inevitably brought increased competition from all kinds of newcomers, like McDonald's, and the gas shortages of the 1970s hurt all roadside businesses considerably. There were also some who claimed that baby-boom...
...Whatever happened to those tangy Howard Johnson's hot dogs and the crunchy ice-cream cones? You can still find them if you look...