Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television setting is "Scoops' Place," a rundown drugstore in the inner city. A young soda jerk named K.O.K. spoons out free banana splits to two buddies who stroll in. Boss "Scoops" calls the boy aside and points out that, although he makes only $1 per hour, K.O.K. has just spent $6 on ice cream for his friends. "Son," says Scoops in a fatherly fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn...
...most startling physical characteristic of a soap is its sound. Soaps keen. The plots jerk along in a series of moans...
...Republic has undergone since he bought it he would say that he is trying to revive the old tradition of The New Republic or as the magazine said in 1914, "to create a little insurrection in men's minds." Peretz says The New Republic had developed a "knee jerk liberal" quality in recent years and that he would like it to be "less predictable without sacrificing its fundamental liberal commitment." Peretz wants to make it a place where controversy exists. To that extent he has succeeded...
...demonstrators, chanting "Munch, Munch, Eat the rich" and "Gerry you jerk Give us work," attempted to intercept the presidential motorcade on Storrow Drive, as it approached the science museum, but were blocked by a cordon of police several yards from the road...
These residents are not fighting the plant because of any knee-jerk reaction against Harvard. For residents who see hospitals creeping up in front and in back of their homes, as they have for the past decade, figures about cleaner power, or data on cheap rates are meaningless. More important, these residents know that the plant can service a lot more hospitals than are currently in the area. And, despite written pledges against expansion, these residents believe that their homes would have to go if more institutions were to come to the area. And it is these people, trapped...