Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then there is button-on-a-string. Versions of this simple plaything may be as old as the Pyramids. But that did not deter Kramer Designs of Royal Oak, Mich., from producing a pop copy with twin twirling plastic disks in psychedelic hues. When the string is pulled taut, the disks whirl apart, then clop together in mid-spin, sounding like a shark with loose plates chewing on an oyster. Op-Yop is its name. At $1 each, Kramer has sold 1,000,000 of them to date, confidently expects to sell another million by Christmas...
...year, as the city's tallest structure. Crocker-Citizens' skyscraping title, however, should be short lived. The Bank of America and Atlantic Richfield Co. have just announced plans for a $140 million office and shopping-center complex that will be 47 ft. higher. The project's twin, 52-story towers will rise 667 ft. above a block-square landscaped mall. "We've needed a downtown since World War II," says Louis B. Lundborg, the Los Angeles-based chairman of the Bank of America, "and now we're getting...
...business-the airlines have all but abandoned the cheap-fare concept. To fill planes at current fares, many are opting for 350-seat layouts and devoting the rest of the space to such frills as 71-ft. movie screens and a "penthouse lounge" that converts to two twin-bed staterooms...
...freshman cross country team out ran the winning streak of new coach Bob Hunt to three straight with twin victories over Providence and Massachusetts on Saturday...
Petition, for example, is a powerfully conceived, expertly executed traditional story about a Siamese twin who believes that his brother is planning to kill him. By turns funny and pathetic, it shudders with the paranoia that ensues when one loses his sense of humor about an unalterable condition. Title is an experimental fiction that is the last word in self-consciousness as a literary mode. The protagonist is the story itself, continually stumbling over its own beginning, middle and end, and recovering to see if anybody is still watching. "To acknowledge what I'm doing while...