Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During his time as Education Secretary, Bennett had become convinced that the country needed an update of McGuffey's Reader, a collection of moral tales children could read, and have read to them, to help counter all the junk on TV. When he left the Bush Administration, Bennett set out to produce such a book. With help from a brainy young assistant named John Cribb, Bennett considered 5,000 stories, selecting 320 and organizing them under 10 virtues: self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty and faith...
...first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
Rendell is the Rocky Balboa of American mayors. When he took office in 1992, the nation's fifth largest city was swimming in red ink and its credit was at junk-bond levels. But like his fictional Philly counterpart, this former D.A. came out swinging. He balanced the city's books by facing down municipal unions, privatizing jobs and saving money on everything from leases to insurance. Now he gives mayoral lessons: both Los Angeles' Richard Riordan and New York City's Rudolph Giuliani have got pointers. He still has headaches--people and jobs continue to flee the city...
Remarkably, PepsiCo ably demonstrates how much gold there is in being the eternal silver-medal winner. The company is still a veritable junk-food juggernaut that includes Frito-Lay, which dominates the salty-snack industry the way you-know-who does soft drinks. There are also the fast-food restaurants Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, a division that is on the rebound. The entire company brought in revenues of $30 billion and profits of $1.99 billion in 1995. The stock, which recently split, increased some 70% last year...
...opening night at Mann's Chinese Theatre and a critical thumbs-up to sell their product straight to the consumer. They don't make blockbuster movies; they make Blockbuster movies. Somebody's got to fill the store shelves, and the major studios simply don't produce enough junk. That's where DTVs come in; they are the drive-in movies of the '90s. Says Michael Weldon, author of Psychotronic Video Guide and the guru of gross-out: "Just because most of these films are bad doesn't mean that others aren't excellent, or at least better than what...