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...Psychologists and sociologists are searching for an explanation for Trivial Pursuit's phenomenal popularity. Says Psychology Professor Ricki Levenson of New York University: "Trivia plugs into everybody's secret addiction to gossip. Knowledge of trivia, like the name of Princess Di's hairdresser, is mental junk food that people delight in consuming...
...answer is everybody and nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake and pie. "I'm all for good eating," says Illinois Reading Specialist Jean Osborn, "but for a child in a story not to be able to have a birthday cake...
...international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis (and not, as legend would have it, to a South Pacific shark), he considered himself "not handicapped, merely inconvenienced," and worked tirelessly for 40 years to spread that message to U.S. amputee veterans...
...says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos put together almost like a jump-cut documentary on Tokyo street life, showing everyone from a roadworker wearing rubberized rain gear to a peddler, a Buddhist monk and a junk collector...
...people didn't like 'Zdzblo' because it was made of junk, but I liked it," Sargent said yesterday...