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...teeth, you must first choose among brands, then among as many as four or five flavors, and then among sizes. After that, you have to choose between the regular and the tartar control formulas. Lastly, you need to decide whether you prefer the regular tube or the allegedly useful pump dispenser...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

...fail to understand the logic of the pump dispenser. Do we need a machine to tell us how much is the correct amount of toothpaste to dispense onto your brush? I, for one, never have had much difficulty in this calculation. Nor have I ever had much trouble in taming that pesky tube cap from running out of the bathroom before I could firmly reseal it onto the top of the tube...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

...which sell for a base price of about $9,000. Apparently the bag option has little allure for many buyers, who have bought the safety devices on only 2% of the 189,000 Tempo and Topaz cars sold since the 1987 model year began. Last week Ford tried to pump new life into its air bags by slashing the price to $295. The company hopes that will move more air bag-equipped cars off dealers' lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: A Fire Sale On Air Bags | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Part of the problem is that almost everybody picked wants to hear "Alison" and "Pump It Up," and Costello fixes the wheel to their tastes, destroying whatever suspense might arise from a truly random selection. True to form, the wheel at Bright yielded uninspired versions of Costello "classics"--a lot of dead time with no music and almost no surprises...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: A Night of Brilliance and Mistakes | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...final touch Costello directed the wheel toland on the title "Pump It Up" for the show's lastsong...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Costello: Harvard's King for a Night | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

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