Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When familiar kiddie cereals, such as Cap'n Crunch, Franken-Berry and Count Chocula, are joined on supermarket shelves by Most, Smart Start and Corn Bran, it signals a shift in American breakfast habits. And in the fickle but fruitful cereal industry ($2.3 billion in sales this year) breakfast-food makers are scrambling to keep pace...
...tanks note an initial feeling of claustrophobia when the door closes behind them and they are isolated in an 8-ft.-long, 4-ft.-high space and 10 in. of water. "It smells," says one, "like day-old bath water." The 28% saline solution makes skin nicks and scratches smart and can sting the eyes. But, like most addicted tankheads, floaters experience a form of euphoria, though not necessarily as intense as the state reported by a 76-year-old salt in Minneapolis: "Now I can see the inside me/ While I float the outside...
...pats his woman on the rump and rushes off to compete for glory and riches. He gets ample time to give his side of the story. The man is bright but no intellectual threat to Dr. Durer's fevered assertions and generalizations. Still, he may be too smart to challenge such filibusters as, "What I want, Victor, is to change the world ... To make it a place where women's way of seeing, thinking, feeling, is as valid as men's. Where maybe even men will join the women because they will see that women...
...loves physical contact and in the rough international game his play is a real asset to us," Harvey said. Aulet, the back court mate of Konstantynowicz, is an aggressive and basketball-smart athlete who has been a key factor in the success of the squad...
Rent-a-suit has already spread to California, where the Los Angeles women's clothesmaker Smart Modes plans to initiate a similar operation. "One out of every five executives who thinks he is dressing for success, dresses to offend," says Author (Dress for Success) and Clothing Consultant John T. Molloy. "There is going to be a whole flurry of companies doing this...