Word: raincoated
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...typification of the TV tot, Video Boy was raised by an electronic baby sitter. The first word he uttered was "Colgate"; the first phrase he learned to read was "The End." When he puts on his raincoat, he becomes a secret agent. When his mother presses him to finish his carrots, he mutters "it's clobberin' time" just like The Thing. When Dad takes over the set to watch football, he and his sister play Dating Game with her dolls. He doesn't climb trees; he watches Tarzan do it. At three, he spends five hours...
...first notice him standing under a single fluorescent light in a back corner of the shadowy basement night club. His black raincoat is still buttoned to the collar, and a battered brown guitar case hangs at his side...
More people filter in now--perhaps 50, perhaps a hundred. Chuck Berry passes through the rcowd of hippies, still in his raincoat, and no one notices. At a table near stage, a flatchested teeny-bopper with flowing blonde hair drags awkwardly on a cigarette and scowls dumbly into space...
...prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...
...breaks down the oil into tiny particles, combines with them and forms a chemical complex that is readily degraded by bacteria, sunlight and air. "The bacteria have a hard time tackling a big oil slick," says Guardian President Dr. Alfred R. Globus. "It's like eating a rubber raincoat. By breaking the oil down we give them something they can chew...