Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MEMBERS OF THE PRESS corps pressed into their tenement attic-turned-playroom, the children went about their business of making potato block prints...
...make raisins. You're a raisin maker, trying to bring home an honest dollar. And then this guy comes up to you and tells you he can make your raisins dance and gyrate and actually beat up other snacks, karate-chopping the potato chips and kicking the party-mix in the nuts. And all the while they're singing "Heard It Through the Grapevine." With real soul...
...work, youngsters are often told to stay safely indoors. Then, too, there is the lure of computer games and television. Youngsters spend on average 24 hours a week before the flickering tube, all too frequently with fattening snack readily at hand. Some children may simply be sprouts of couch-potato parents, but even when elders set a sprightly example, it is not always enough. Aerobics Advocate Cooper, who skis and runs, most often finds his 16-year-old son Tyler sprawled before the TV set. Acknowledges High School Sophomore Monette Powell, 16, of Woodland, Calif.: "A lot of students...
...characterizations. Yvonne suspects that he is a "spray-painter, the kind that goes around at night and writes things on brick walls, things like CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUCKS and SAVE SOVIET JEWS! WIN BIG PRIZES!" But she is attracted by "the sullenness, the stylistic belligerence, the aggressive pastiness and deliberate potato- sprouting-in-the-cellar lack of health...
Ralph: O.K. I want you to respect my two favorite hobbies -- watching TV and resting. You will owe me money if you ever criticize Joe DiMaggio, serve sodium-free potato chips, or bring into this house any book written by a sea gull or Leo Buscaglia. Outside of that, I'm easy. Of course, if I stick flamingos in the front yard, defend secondhand smoke or say something coarse about the snail darter, I'll pay you. I will agree never to go bald. And naturally, I expect you to remain wrinkle free and wasp waisted until further notice from...