Word: zap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among Reaganites celebrating their victory. When Safire introduced himself to Smith at a party, Smith upbraided him: "What a cheap shot!" But then, Safire reported triumphantly, "to a partygoer who was recently elected President of the United States, I mentioned in sadness that I had felt it necessary to zap his lawyer in print. 'Yeah, I know,' Mr. Reagan responded. 'We've heard those things about Frank for years, and we just hope none of them are true.' That was all-no huffiness, no bristling, no protestations of violated virginity...
...very young can race on the Zap Zap Racetrack ("throw the throttle and send those racers zap zap zapping side by side. Around the curves, over the bumps and through the zigzags. It's a wild ride...now don't collide...
...management at Zap Zap raceways may warn against collisions, but some toy manufacturers are hep enough to know that its the six-car fatals that keep them buying newspapers. Hot Wheels, which at the height of its popularity sold an Interstate-Highway's worth of orange track annually, offers the Criss Cross track, which should be an easy concept to figure...
...minute ride from his home in suburban Westchester County to the Good Morning America studio on Manhattan's West 66th Street. Since seconds are precious at that dark hour, Hartman uses the 30 minutes to munch an apple and a banana and read-or "zap through," as he says-the New York Times and Daily News. (Joan Lunden uses the commuting time, also from Westchester, to nurse her three-month-old baby, whom ABC provides with a nurse and a nursery while she is working...
...telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants." Zap! "The success of People was due to three things: (1) it always showed you other people's living rooms...(2) it always showed you where other people's libidos were plugged in (3) it was a print annex to the TV set." Pow! American popular culture comes splattering to earth like...