Word: paraphenalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Budge's eccentric meditations appear relatively tame once Grass (John Bottoms) plows into the room, dragging an I.V. stand with bottles pumping fluids into his every orifice. Grass claims to suffer from "heavy water." After some banter about medical exotica like "dangling paraphenalia" and "polyester blood," a nurse comes to take Grass back to the "Day Room" in the psychiatric wing. Then this nurse is taken away as a looney...
Corcoran said that his company which runs stores near Harvard and Boston College has signs posted at each store saying it is unaffiliated with the colleges. Harvard has never attempted to prevent the store from selling school paraphenalia, he said...
...tale is edited more and more in favor of commercials. This year such Grinch destruction was taken to an extreme. As reflected in the title, the central part of the story is how the Grinch actually steals Christmas. Perhaps the most enjoyable part is seeing the Grinch removing Christmas paraphenalia and sliming his way around the Who-houses. Most everyone harbors enough Scrooge-like thoughts to make this most satisfying. But most of this section wound up on the editing room floor. No more can children or any one else see our hero guiding the Who-electric-train into...
...near the post office. Drinks are in the cheap side, and the ambience is informal. For those who find the jocky ambience of the Filly a little declasse, the Boathouse (56 JFK St.) promises a full house of pink and green Lacostes expensive, and there's lots of crew paraphenalia on the walls...
...leach-like needs. He toured on freak shows. He spurred a dance craze: the Chameleon rivalled the Charleston in popularity. He triggered a host of songs (Cole Porter once wrote "You're the tops, you're Leonard Zelig--except he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig). Zelig paraphenalia--ashtrays, jewelry, and general knick-knacks--cropped up and sold briskly...