Word: preshrunk
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Captain Underpants is America's most unlikely superhero, fighting for "truth, justice and all that is preshrunk and cottony." There are 12.5 million copies of the wildly popular children's books based on this character, with the newest one, Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (Scholastic), coming out this month. TIME interviewed the captain's irreverent creator, Dav Pilkey, by e-mail...
This movie, culled from the '72 tour, captures the Rolling Stones at their best. They play their instruments and perform even better than they play their roles of satanic majesties and sated superstars. As if to rebut all the preshrunk philosophy and opinion-mongering, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones contains no interviews with pundits, no chats with enraptured audience members, no cinema verite lowdowns about what went on behind the scenes. The music is all, and it is plenty...
...poverty in 1964, the program has stirred a steady drumfire of criticism that amounts to a war within a war. Last week some of the stoutest supporters of the antipoverty campaign engaged in a corrosive crossfire that could only further damage the Administration's prospects of getting its preshrunk, $2.06 billion request for the program through a critical Congress...
...looks preshrunk, forlorn, anonymous, an obsequious undertaker in a tight black suit-except that dark eyes of mourning seem to have been burned into his head with a blowtorch. He is pale, wary, jumpy, an urban night monkey traveling in the jungle of cities from Paris to New York. The combo behind him breaks into a jazz beat, and he punctuates the air around him with staccato jabs of his hand mike. Nervously he whips the mike cord, and it coils and undulates like a black snake. At the end of it, his slight body stiffens in a convulsive spasm...
...that such things can continue, Congress last week once again passed a foreign aid bill. The measure provides $3.36 billion for fiscal 1966, $100 million less than Lyndon Johnson's "preshrunk" request, but $13 million more than Congress gave last year. Few cries of "giveaway" or "rathole" were heard in the Capitol; instead the bill passed in an atmosphere of doubt, hope, disillusionment and dutiful expectation. Foreign aid still seems a stranger in the house...