Word: whammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very simple. "The Fullness of Living." "Oatmeal sticks to your ribs." Then there's a scene with a guy who can't quite Make It with a girl and it looks like a nice place to end. ("Got to get back to my homework, anyway.") But WHAM! The time-tape stops! Rewind. A NEW end. Rewind. ANOTHER end. and another and another ... until there is No End, only a voice from the dolls droning "nothing ... we're nothing ... you're nothing ..." Then, suddenly, there's no sound at all and you drop back, exhausted and drenched. Sincerely, Helgruth...
Meanwhile, Los Angeles' Wham-O Mfg. Co., which a decade ago launched the Frisbee and last year revived the Hula Hoop as the Shoop Shoop, does not intend to be caught napping. For Frisbee flyers, whose six-month-old International Frisbee Association now totals 20,000 members, a new indoor model, only 3¾ in. in diameter, is on the market, and has already matched the sales of the conventional model. Latest of Wham-O's line is the Whirlee Twirlee. Something new? Not if you remember the way vaudeville jugglers used to spin plates...
...WHAM. "Identity Diffusion" sets in. It's one of those modern diseases. But, like all modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...
...WHAM. "Identity Diffusion" sets in. It's one of those modern diseases. But, like all modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...
...flustered; he puts on his clothes and his steel-rimmed glasses, then pulls the bedcovers off the wide-eyed, naked girl and tells her to get his jacket. As she flits across the floor, the audience's eyes follow her avidly. So do the eyes of the detectives. Wham-Benesch has his gun out and the drop on them...