Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1950s, these Coney Islands of the Mind were crumbling along with the cities they served. Then Disney, who had already revolutionized the movie business with his Mickey Mouse short films and feature-length cartoons, conceived a new show-biz hybrid called the theme park. No rickety roller coasters, no sucker- fleecing games of chance, no sideshow tawdriness for Uncle Walt. At his place every path would be as spotless as Formica; every doorway would be scaled to just above kid-size; every "attraction" (not ride) would be sweet enough for "guests" (not customers) of all ages to enjoy, a little...
...tubes and their methods are aimed at producing a panoply of weapons "that would be effective in eradicating or at least controlling this virus in patients," Hirsch says. Groopman, an assistant professor of medicine, concurs, saying he has never worked so hard in his life to catch the "clever sucker...
...owners, possessors of spinning wheels, antique crockery, vintage automobiles or sows that would fetch blue ribbons at any county fair -- but the Titusville event swept you back and held you stuck in time through the course of an afternoon (Why does the word stirring come uncharacteristically to mind?). Any sucker for a Zippo lighter, a cracked leather flight jacket, the music of Glenn Miller or the recollection of a sassy riveter with a mouth like a beesting would have found peace in this field...
...coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...
...produce a record that not only "takes cover in the groove" (as he would have it) but even manages to "funk the bomb" (as the Village Voice proclaimed in a recent review). The salacious echo of "funking the bomb" is in your own mind: We're talking funk, sucker...