Word: plopping
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...WELL THAT ENDS WELLS: "I can't believe that I ate the whole thing." "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is." "I love New York." Such jingles took Mary Wells Lawrence to the top of the advertising world in the 1960s. PW admires her new autobiography, "A Big Life in Advertising" (Knopf; May 12): "A beguiling look inside 30 years of the zippy, fast-moving culture, done with the kind of witty, charming self-deprecation often seen in the ads she created. FORECAST: Knopf's banking on this one with a 50,000 first printing and first...
...confession of weakness: the undersigned is a sucker for time-travel movies. Good, bad or indifferent, films that plop at least one character down in the wrong century--where his or her dress, customs and conversation befuddle and occasionally outrage the temporally challenged locals--always delight...
Rowling's first inspiration was to plop modern, realistically drawn kids into a magical, medieval setting. Her next was to make Harry a naive hero, plucked from ignominious obscurity--the spidery cupboard under his awful relatives' stairs--and challenged to greatness. The result, a witches' brew of Tolkien and Tom Brown's School Days, was so vividly written that it was, in effect, already its own movie. It gave readers the narrative equivalent of the best seat in the house and free popcorn to boot...
...respond with some pretty loud barking of their own. "Some get so indignant I almost expect to hear an Association to Protect Dog Poop in Public has been founded," he muses. "Most argue since they pay city taxes to clean it up, their dogs have the right to plop it down. Non-dog owners, it seems, pay taxes for the right to walk in it." Though he has started selling packs of flags (five for $25) so admirers can join his protest, Cho says he'll end his campaign after a year or so. Despite the public service nature...
...that every year, according to The New York Times, Americans spend $4 billion buying or renting pornographic videos. Or the fact that the 8.7 million subscribers to DirecTV buy nearly $200 million in pay-per-view adult entertainment, while one in five of AT&T 's broadband cable customers plop down 10 bucks a film to watch "real, live all-American sex--not simulated by actors." Or the fact that almost half of all hotel rooms across the country come equipped with little black boxes that enable business travelers to relax with a helping of hard-core copulation...