Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign of the novel's success is the fact that Birdy's desire never for an instant seems risible or even, after a while, particularly bizarre. Thoughts from the hero ("What I need is a tail") that could easily be howlers pass by with the equilibrium of logic and consistency. Method triumphs over madness. In alternating sections, Al reminisces aloud, as much to pass the time as to get through to his apparently oblivious friend, and then Birdy in turn thinks about his past. These two sets of memories are vectors to the present. The personalities...
...head of General Foods Corp. (1954-65); of a heart attack; in Orleans, Mass. Joining the Postum Co. (later renamed General Foods) in 1928, Mortimer revolutionized the American kitchen by his masterful marketing of such convenience foods as Birds Eye frozen vegetables, Tang breakfast drink and Maxwell House instant coffee. Though he helped build General Foods into the world's largest processed food company, with annual sales of $1.5 billion, Mortimer knew his industry's limits. "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of steak," he once...
...plugs the hits he made 25 years ago, and the new Mickey Mouse Club has a whole new generation of Mousketeers on the march. There is something rather pathetic inherent in nostalgia--that yearning for the good old days that never really existed--and especially in the media-contrived instant nostalgia which is constantly being produced in this country. Things are hardly gone before they're immortalized, distilled and stereotyped. If that doesn't produce results, then you simply dredge up heroes from the past...
...story to the movies, TV and even Broadway. Biographies, long the mainstay of the reading public, have become the hottest items in show business. Hardly has a celebrity finished his life-and often only half his life-than some producer is looking for writers and actors to do an instant replay...
Across the October countryside, the name mobilizes an instant and selflessly generous loathing. Checks fly in like barn swallows swooping to a mown field. Hillary Clinton is the most galvanizingly divisive candidate since... well, since Bill Clinton...