Word: marshmallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weak assault? The answer is all too clear. The "revolutionaries" who confronted us, the spokesmen of imperialism and repression, were marshmallow revolutionaries. They each wanted to be two people at once: one a real revolutionary throwing things, the other a petit bourgeois doing nothing. When the repression comes in the form of our "pig police," these "revolutionaries" would not have to face "capitalist justice." After all, who can charge assault and battery when hit by a marshmallow...
...What can you say about a man who takes the No. 1 marshmallow, sob story of the year, and turns it into a one-page masterpiece? I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner...
...Kitchen commercials makes the food preparation demonstration into a culinary slapstick. When the frantic hands of an unseen cook have finished rubbing Kramp Easy-Lube Shortening into a bowl of apples and mashed potatoes, and when the finished casserole has been brought forth from the oven, the unruffled, marshmallow-toned announcer proclaims the creation of a Kramp first, "Fourth of July Heritage Loaf," appropriately garnished with "a min-i-a-chure American Flag...
...starlets who fit the mood of the return to romance. There is, for example, Margot Kidder, a Love Story hater ("Two marshmallow people marching around trying to be brave") and one of the great bodies of the Western world as well as the Tomato Surprise of Quackser Fortune. Or Carrie Snodgress, unforced, radiant star of the arch, dim Diary of a Mad Housewife. Perhaps the most technically skilled of the new romanticists, she insists...
...enrollment of 900 black students by 1971] buckled under to a few squads of kid extortionists. As for the vigor of my criticism of President Fleming, it was conscious-based on the old Cub Scout theory that the best way to put a tough coat on a marshmallow is to roast...