Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though I am a fool for swirls and toasted nutlings in 16% butterfat, and fresh peach or berry can make me weep with joy, unreformable junk food cravings still linger. As a wantonly spoiled New Yorker, I could enjoy a sublime birthday cake prepared by any of a dozen master patissiers. But for the last three birthdays I have insisted on a Baskin-Robbins Mickey Mouse with blue eyes and an orange necktie cloaking layers of English Toffee, Pralines 'N Cream and Jamoca Almond Fudge. And they have to tear me away at midnight to keep me from devouring...
...Alter, who had grown bored with the administrative end of his sailboat business, sold out to a camping-equipment maker, the Coleman Co. of Wichita, Kans. "I didn't want to be head of anything because then you have to go to meetings and junk," says Alter, who instead signed on with Coleman as a designer and began casting about for something different to create. The result: a 33-ft. fiberglass sloop, the Hobie 33. Equipped with a retractable keel and a mast that can be easily removed for transportation, the boat is small enough to be towed behind...
...cutting off "impact aid" to school districts that serve federal facilities, primarily military bases. Other committees met their "goals" by proposing to close 10,000 post offices, abolish the Export-Import Bank and eliminate a program that provides meals for the elderly. "That's the kind of junk we are facing," said one presidential aide...
...only one in the theater who would even bother to try. Here is a show that puts meaning back into the phrase "all singing, all dancing." The show's 30 members are almost always in view and forever on the move: prowling through the junk, licking themselves and leapfrogging one another, prancing down the aisles. Compared with these athletic toms and tabbies, the companies of most Broadway musicals seem positively inert...
...ordeal. Armed guards had to be hired to keep the clutching fans at bay. But at fees of up to $30,000 per week, the Angels got rich. Producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg got even richer, and so did the merchandisers who hawked the cornucopia of pop junk: 4 million Angel dolls, 3 million lunch pails, etc. "It was a milestone," says Doyle. "There won't be another one like it-which opens the way for a lot of people to say, 'Thank...