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DESPERATE 1. The Kissing Machine[TM] $49.95 Sometimes a kiss is more than just a kiss. With the help of this battery-operated gadget, a smooch can be shock therapy too. Connect one set of wires to your stereo, hold one handle each, turn the knobs, kiss and whammo! You complete the circuit, and the electricity really flows. It could cure you of kissing forever...
...future, it was a pretty simple exercise. Take your basic nuclear family: the modern, shop-happy housewife, the corporate-drone dad, two rambunctious kids and a dog; house them in a spacy-looking split-level; power their car with atomic energy; equip their home with a robot maid; and, whammo, you had it -- a space-age Cleaver family named The Jetsons...
...official Whammo Hacky Sack is made of plastic beads coated with animal hide. "If you don't eat meat, it's hard to justify playing Hacky Sack says Lerdow. "That's the only trouble--thinking about all the dead animals the went into...
...Chemistry of Love is often laughable in both its language and its ideas. Liebowitz writes badly and thinks sloppily. His work is filled with meaningless sentences such as "Along comes a somewhat attractive and friendly soul and whammo, our brains are hit with megadoses of 'attachment juice." His logic is no better. "Biologically," he writes, "it appears that we have evolved two distinct chemical systems for romance; one basically serves to bring people together and the other to keep them together." The only evidence that he offers for all this elaborate chemical apparatus is that we fall in love...
...bills by the billions. Says Robert Lenz, assistant comptroller of New York Telephone Co.: "The impact is very direct on us because we mail about 6.2 million bills a month. Roughly each cent of postal increase will cost us some $800,000 a year. That's a big whammo...