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...best bands this side of E Street. This show is about the fall and rise of David Bowie. A little regeneration and a little dancing in the aisles, a touch of optimism and a double dose of rhythm and blues and, as the man himself once said, wham bam, thank...
...fans were really sky-high over this thing, and then, wham!" Tiger skipper Sparky Anderson said before Wednesday's Red Sox-Tiger massacre. He added that he feels particularly bad about the Tiger down-turn because their-success had been such a salve for the city...
...believe that the nation and the world are ready for a new Hula Hoop era." Venturing that brave prediction is Barry Shapiro, 39, executive vice president and general manager of the Wham-O Mfg. Co., the San Gabriel, Calif., toy and sporting-goods maker that introduced the hoop in 1958. During a slightly mad six-month period 25 years ago, as many as 120 million hoops were sold around the world. A 1967 version called the Shoop-Shoop Hula Hoop was filled with ballbearings to make a swishing sound. It briefly sparked renewed interest, but failed to reignite...
...Wham-O believes that the current economic troubles may be just what is needed to give the Hula Hoop another whirl. The first introduction coincided with the 1958 recession, while the second came during the trauma of the Viet Nam War. As Shapiro explains, "Wham-O has always felt that when the world is in kind of a messy way and people are unhappy, something like the hoop lets them just forget everything while they go crazy for a minute or two spinning around...
...empty, winding tunnels. Consider the psychological implications of the game like its innumerable lesser relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with a new T.V. and goes about as deeply into the product's real meaning-and you can go on playing forever...