Word: spam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like a Christmas pinata, Jim knows his perspective will be forever darkened. No child can see all this and hold onto childhood...
Mainstream money-making methods--such as lawyering, doctoring, and "Spam"-endorsing--quickly are becoming obsolete in the face of the lucrative world of media scams. The media is the best way to quickly amass large sums of the American people's money, as evidenced by the triumphant "Slim Whitman" album offers, the enormous wealth of the Televangelist Beggars, and the successful peddling of anything made of porcelain...
...last year's Statue of Liberty centennial in New York harbor, the bridge's birthday will include a 50-gun salute, a flyover and fireworks, as well as the usual well-meaning but oddball gesture: the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce has built a bridge replica from empty cans of Spam, which is also marking its 50th anniversary...
...human identity comes the philosophical "I'm pink. Therefore, I'm Spam" and a variation on a popular theme, "To err is human. To moo bovine...
...against such a happy outcome. A more likely experience would be to spend $375 on a banquet for eight at a gleaming, modern hotel and have an exquisitely presented but virtually tasteless meal for which the delicate petals of a rose are meticulously carved from the Chinese equivalent of Spam...