Word: yos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's end the Stratosphere staff--some of them designated in corporate lingo as redog ("Roving Entertainers Delighting Our Guests")--was negotiating the cable-strewn floors. In Roxy's Diner, a '50s-style eatery, punk and geek waiters were studiously spinning yo-yos and polishing their patois ("neat," "ugly stick," "chick" and the immortal "your mother"). Says the Stratosphere's president David Wirshing: "No one's ever built a tower in conjunction with a facility like this before. There'll be all sorts of unknowns, and a few inevitable hitches." He might take heart from the notoriously ragged 1993 opening...
...exclusive rights to sell Duncan yo-yos in Israel: My partner and I just called them up and they gave them to us. After two weeks, my partner went into the army and left me with a thousand yo-yos. I made a lot of money. People would stop me in the street and say, "Hey, aren't you the yo-yo man?" They never knew a yo-yo could do more than just go up and down before then...
...sure, there is a populist instinct at the heart of the system since ballgoers and buyers of Inaugural umbrellas and yo-yos will foot part of the bill. Besides, says Harry Thomason, co-chairman of the Inaugural Committee, "it's sort of a Catch-22. These days people say you shouldn't spend millions and millions on the Inaugural events. But only if you spend millions and millions can the events be accessible to as many people as possible." Still, the spectacle of the Clydesdale horse team and Budweiser beer wagon parading past the White House seems at odds with...
...structural debt to Red River, but its spin is strictly Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: sharply turned observations on contemporary angst blended with agreeable sentiments by Parenthood's writers. O.K., it would be nice if this film paused to sniff the locoweed, but director Ron Underwood yippee-ki-yos the yuppies quite smartly along a pretty fresh trail...