Word: zonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Superman pulls out of his funk at the end of the show of course; his overwhelming desire to do good triumphs in the face of Freudian psychoanalysis. During a song called "Pow! Bam! Zonk!" Superman trounces his foes, returns as Metropolis's hero, and wins the love of Lois Lane--who has been drooling after him throughout the entire show...
...dust. But one official is frankly puzzled about how to approach PCP users. Says he: "It's hard to understand why people are taking PCP. They don't take it to get high. They don't take it to make sex better. They take it to zonk themselves out. In a way, it's a disguised death wish...
...Highway People never leave the freeway: they live in trailer parks, and move on when the spirit moves them (or when the notoriously prison-like mortgages and other traps of these mobile home oases allow it); they take nourishment at roadside snack bars; they recreate at rest stops, zonk in at the drive-in. Route 9 is smaller time--it carves through heavy suburbs, and at the Village Green Miniature Golf mecca "the 19th hole," a wired blare-music pinball palace, the lights are blazing and it seems like the kids are worshipping all night. The other 18 holes...
There are other, better reasons for the hot dog to be top dog. Crackling tidily above briquettes, steaming under vendors' umbrellas and in short-order restaurants, the frank still emits a sharp democratic zonk, redolent of exotic spices and domestic meats. To most Americans, the hot dog is the equivalent of Proust's madeleine; it triggers memories of afternoons in the bleachers, and languorous Sundays spent lolling on pic nic grounds. At 170 calories, it is modest enough to be included in a dietary lunch; yet the gourmet James Beard has wrapped a recipe around it: choucroute...