Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to run a gauntlet of starchy, beefy delights and breathe air perfumed with the scent of rendered lard. According to the Agriculture Department, the food and restaurant industries spend $36 billion a year on advertisements designed to entice hungry people to forgo fresh fruit and sliced vegetables for Ring Dings and Happy Meals. The average child, says psychologist Kelly Brownell, head of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, watches 10,000 food ads a year on TV. "And they're not seeing commercials for brussels sprouts," Brownell complains. "They're seeing soft drinks, candy bars, sugar...
...school nutritionist compete against BigFoot pizzas and Super- Size fries? The $50,000 the U.S. government allots each state annually to teach kids to eat right is lost next to the billions spent designing food and packaging that will ring the kids' Pavlovian bells. A telling statistic: Kellogg's in 1993 spent $32 million advertising a single product: Frosted Flakes. By comparison, last year the produce industry spent $55 million on an educational program to promote its entire product line, from asparagus to zucchini...
...another ring at Altman's circus, Terri Garr shops to satisfy husband Danny Aiello's hankering for duds he just can't wear in the rust belt. Though Aiello looks smashing in a powder pink Chanel suit, the story, like so many others in "Ready to Wear," is dropped like a bad hemline and we never see them again...
...heavyweight title at age 45, knocking out Michael Moorer with a creaky but effective right hand in the 10th round. Foreman's jabs and quips were an inspiration to others approaching their Social-Security years, and they brought a desperately needed shot of Ali-style panache to the ring. Still, the potbellied champ's triumph pointed out the sorry, talentless state of the heavyweight division in the Tyson-behind-bars...
...metaphysical catfight engaged moral extremes that put William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues on the best-seller list for the entire 52 weeks, while the world watched a regular Ring cycle of gaudy, televised, weirder- than-fiction unvirtue. The Nicole Brown Simpson murder was merely the most riveting segment...