Word: pint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chapeaus, the high heels. Then do a double take over the teensy stick-figure bodies and the immature voices belting out God Bless America and Tomorrow. Like some human optical illusion, JonBenet Ramsey and her besequinned fellow beauty-pageant contestants are not in fact fully developed adults. They are pint-size little women often done up like trick ponies...
...Robot By Dan Yaccarino (Viking; $14.99) The story gets right to the high-tech point: if Phil, the pint-size hero, had a robot, this gigantic mechanical best friend could eat Phil's Brussels sprouts (yuck!) and lima beans (ugh!). And take Phil's piano lessons. And go to school for him. And beat up bad guys. And eat Phil's chocolate cake...oops, wait a minute; not so fast! Equally charming are the author's bright, funny illustrations, which show Phil wearing a baseball cap frontward, not backward. Could this fashion statement signal the beginning of a trend...
...that promise to "bring out the kid in you" and the movie genre about 40-year-old bodies inhabited by fun-loving 10-year-old minds. But at the very same time, childhood is being redefined in the news media as a public safety hazard and breeding ground for pint-size "predators" who would just as soon slit your throat as click on for another round of Nintendo...
...Monkey. Ben and Jerry have made a very public effort to put the environment, politics and people before profits--an unpardonable sin in the canon of Wall Street and a style that worked so long as Baby Boomers were ignoring their fat intake and scarfing Cherry Garcia by the pint...
...subsequently been overshadowed. For one thing, the popular new sorbets are pinching sales from ice cream, which is now losing ground in supermarkets to archrival Haagen-Dazs. Holland also imposed a pair of price increases, the most recent taking hold this month and pushing the retail price of a pint of Ben & Jerry's to more than $3 in some markets. That's a hefty charge that could deter even some loyalists. In an ominous sign, Ben & Jerry's last month said earnings in the just-ended third quarter would be below the 35[cents]-a-share of a year...