Word: jell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting by digression, challenging and revising every assumption presented and switching subjects to alight on a new idea before circling around to finish the last. The method is collaborative: a free-form Scrabble game that reflects her scanning, multitrack way of thinking. Gradually, eventually, problems are solved: story ideas jell, stereotypes are smashed, cliches dissolved and media-worn phrases reconstituted into acceptable headlines...
...household name and producer of consumer products, Kraft Inc., to Philip Morris Companies Inc. for an estimated $13.5 billion. Each year, Kraft sells $10 billion worth or products like Cheez Whiz, Miracle Whip and something called Frusen Gladje. Philip Morris makes items such as cigarettes, beer, coffee, lunchmeat and Jell...
...talking about something that destroys people's lives . . . to the point that they're no longer normal human beings." Reagan drew an angry picture of future decadence: "You drive down the highway, and you look up, and there's a billboard, and it doesn't say EAT JELL-O; it says TRY COCAINE. And your papers and your magazines ((would be)) full of attractive ads saying OH, HAVE A BALL, GET STONED ON COCAINE, YOU'LL NEVER TRY ANYTHING ELSE." Senator D'Amato earlier sardonically suggested some snappier slogans: "The weekend belongs to heroin," for example, or "This crack...
...little by little, the film began to come into focus. The results were just taking their time halfway through the season, Harvard Coach Pete Roby sees a team that may be beginning to jell...
...state seem like an outpost of Lake Wobegon. The Hawkeye State first embraced Prohibition in 1882, and the lemonade legacy remains: Iowans drink less liquor per capita than the residents of any state save West Virginia, where illegal moonshine is not counted in the standings. Des Moines is the Jell-O-eating capital of the nation. Cakes are still made from scratch: consumers buy ingredients like baking chocolate at roughly double the national norm...