Word: lemons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dickmobile" hasn't been well received by establishment auto customizers, however. George Barris, who designed the Oscar Mayer Weiner Wagon and the STP Lemon Car, says Paige's car is "nutty." As for his own business. Barris says, "We try to keep our stuff on the socially acceptable level...
...milkman, allowed that he would take off his jacket but "I have a hole in my shirt." Then, zeroing in, the rosy-cheeked Irishman and his partner, Alan Cooper, a 34-year-old bricklayer, won the next two games and repaired to the bar for a victory gin and lemon...
Thus for Didion the beach, the desert, the freeways and the plastic extravagances of architecture were metaphors. For Director Perry they are just locations. Shorn of image, the story is a poor and predictable thing. Moreover, dialogue like "She has these very copious menstruations" and "That lemon is not artificial. That lemon is reconstituted" reads better than it sounds...
These kids had been raised by mothers who loved them--so they had a complete innocence altogether near to arrogance. The trade unionist reared more often than not by a mother who laid the frequent back of her hand on every idiot potato and onion and lemon head of a kid in her brood, could now have the immense anger of seeing his leonine powers lifted by a horde of suburban ants who had never been stepped on, and now could hardly...
...more approachable style to his office. He frequently works in a collarless sports shirt; he teaches a freshman calculus course; and he sets aside time every week for students to come in without any appointment and talk. When the superconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader called the new president a "lemon" (because he canceled classes during the Kent State upheaval) Kemeny good-naturedly tossed out lemons at a subsequent mass meeting of students, many of whom were wearing polo shirts painted with bright yellow lemons. Kemeny can also be blunt. A delegation of professors once protested against his bringing his wife...