Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every Friday and Saturday at midnight, fans across the nation arm themselves with toilet paper, rice and toast in preparation for the bizarre ritual. When the film's crazy Dr. Frank-n-furter proposes a toast, the audience pelts the screen with--you got it--slices of toast. And when rain soaks movie characters Brad and Janet, audience members drench each other with water pistols...
...children whose parents rarely make it home in time to tell bedtime stories, Lewis Galoob offers Dozzzy ($60), a blue-pajamaed doll stuffed with a tape recorder that is activated when a child squeezes its hand. The doll supervises the bedtime ritual: "Did you remember to brush your teeth?" and "Is the light turned out?" As it asks about the child's day, the questions are punctuated with suggestive yawns. To spare the batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms...
...same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke, and the politicians were forced to hack through thickets of have-you-ever interrogation. Two (Al Gore and Bruce Babbitt) volunteered that they had. When it was Richard Gephardt's turn at the pressroom ritual, he restated his lifelong purity concerning controlled substances. Then a question shouted from the back row: Why didn't you smoke marijuana? If he could not be nailed as a pothead, then he would be tagged a nerd...
...game ritual is more than just superstition. While AC/DC plays, Dale's face is a study of intensity. It's the same expression he wears on the field...
That's when it's time for ritual number two. A James Taylor tape finds its way into Dale's walkman...