Word: pretzelism
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...baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed), or a freshly bagged slice of pie (tax free) as opposed to a similarly sized prepackaged pie (taxable). While conservative talk-show hosts ridicule the new laws as regulation run amuck, liberal critics blister them as unfair: a worker's pretzel is subject to the tax, but a CEO's caviar...
...same stuff to two mitt- size disks that have a strap across the back for a handhold. Presto! A craze known variously as Magic Mitts, Scatch, Katch-a-Roo and Super Grip Ball. On streets, playgrounds and at the beach, players have added their own fancy moves, twisting into pretzel shapes to make behind-the-back catches, or getting a grip on the ball while doing a high-kick. Another trick: strapping a mitt on each hand to grab two balls at once. In short, the new adhesive playthings do what the Frisbee used to do, with less effort. Dropping...
...That's too boring. Want a pretzel...
...which the key players weren't will Clark or Jose Canseco but Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle. If only you could have witnessed Don Larsen's perfect game or watched Ted William's perfect swing. If only you could have seen a game at Ebbets Field or eaten a pretzel that wasn't cold. If only...
...band's name was an offshoot of a running dialogue in baby talk that Don carried on with his young son Anthony ("Anthony want pretzel?" "Not want."). According to Don, the name also "parallels the reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother...