Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is any lesson to be learned from ventures of this sort, it is that middleclass, middle-brow people should not try to show their superiority to other middleclass, middle-brow people by at tempting to satirize them. In the process they only prove the truth of Pogo's immortal cry: "We have met the enemy...
...only faster, deeper, higher, with different equipment or at a different age. The act of dying is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people. "After Sir Edmund Hillary," says Boston Globe Columnist M.R. Montgomery, "you can climb Everest on a pogo stick without attracting envy or admiration." But, in fact, once the notion of climbing a mountain by pogo stick has been conceived, it would not be surprising if somebody...
...week the five-week trial of John Wayne Gacy, 38, who was accused of murdering more people than anyone else in U.S. history. A building contractor who lived outside Chicago in Norwood Park, Gacy appeared to be a friendly neighbor who delighted in entertaining kids by dressing up as Pogo the Clown. But in December 1978, when police questioned him about the disappearance of a local 15-year-old named Robert Piest, Gacy began jabbering about a seven-year career of murder, of picking up boys and young men, forcing them to perform sexual acts and then strangling them. Police...