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American representative Dwight Jenkins said hiscompany is also trying to cash in on currenttrends with their new oversized gum, "Mondo...
...dispute flared shortly after Kenner Products, which makes the Savage Mondo Blitzers line of action toys, said it will bow to protests against the gross-out figures by changing some of their names. Although such characters as Barf Bucket, Snot Shot and Bad Fart will remain on store shelves, they could become less irritating to parental ears...
Hasbro is offering Monster Face, a life-size plastic skull that comes complete with "blistering boil," "nose slime drip" and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...
...years between those two very different projects saw Rossi's transformation from cult hero to blue-chip eminence grise. His floating 250- seat Teatro del Mondo, for the 1980 Venice Biennale, captured the imagination of architects around the world. In 1982 The Architecture of the City finally came out in English, and two years after that, the housewares company Alessi began marketing his gorgeous, Teatro-like silver espresso maker. Suddenly, there was a surge of important building commissions and groundbreakings. In 1988 five Rossi projects were finished in Italy...
...Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria in White Plains, N. Y. (Minis and ruffles, short pants and denim jackets with the collar turned up and cuffs rolled back are in.) Top status possessions are a horse, a health-club membership and a monthly clothing...