Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake Champlain/ in the placid acid rain." In another tune, Waldeck dreams of being reincarnated as a "big, wrecking ball" so he can "crack down on condos." But fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain forest, baby, before the rain forest dies." That lyric is a pointed reference to the fact that tropical rain forests are turned into pasture so that beef cattle can be raised for export to the U.S. and that felled trees become...
...learning about the viciousness of slavery and segregation for the very first time. Unfortunately, the film does little to deepen the knowledge of its audience. Though its producers say the movie is fictional, they so artfully commingle fact and invention that many viewers, whose ability to discern a whopper when they see one has been obliterated by an age of TV docudramas, are convinced of its veracity. They leave the theater believing a version of history so distorted that it amounts to a cinematic lynching of the truth...
...motivated partly by deadlines, he acknowledges. The regulator wants to expedite bailouts before the current fiscal year ends, on Sept. 30, so that next year's FSLIC spending will stay within the confines of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. Wall's next rescue candidate could be a whopper: the American Savings and Loan Association of Stockton, Calif., whose bail-out may cost $2 billion...
...Hollywood's hoariest traditions: when filmmakers start to tell a historical whopper they place a title card at the front of their picture, solemnly assuring us that what we are about to see is true. The ensuing lies are generally sanitizing, ennobling and inspirational. At the beginning of Walker, its creators cross their hearts and hope to die in the usual manner. But the lying that follows is of a grand and giddy kind -- the stuff of that rarest of movie genres, the mock epic...
McDonald's has cooked up some popular new products too. Its McD.L.T. sandwich, a lettuce-and-tomato burger packed in a two-compartment box to keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool, has proved to be a beefy competitor to Burger King's Whopper and Wendy's Big Classic. The McD.L.T., introduced nationally early last year, is the company's biggest success since Chicken McNuggets debuted in 1983. At the moment, McDonald's is test-marketing a more unexpected offering: McPizza...