Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artwork on the cereal box was meant to entertain breakfast eaters, but it wound up appalling some of them instead. A new package for General Mills' Count Chocula breakfast cereal features a rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover...
...just snap this little diddy onto the neck of potential offenders before the class begins, and presto: the motivation for each thing that they say appears over them in a little puffy bubble that comes complete with a line of circles leading to their head. Here is a small excerpt of the results from a recent class...
First, Harvard came out with new red swimming caps with funny little H's at the base of the neck...
...each character looks back at Theo and searches for clues to explain his fate, a complex portrait slowly emerges, not only of a troubled young man but of an entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing...
Past experience has proven Vellucci will turn any subject into a cause against the universities, which bear down in his imagination like the two weights of a barbell on the neck of the city...