Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias in Soho - and a place on King's Road where she could buy a pair of bell-bottom slacks by Foale & Tuffin that made her something of a trend setter back home in New York...
...When WNAC-TV plastered subways and buses with posters of a newspaper overlayed with big black letters, "Tonight go home and read your Channel 7," one subway rider was spotted with his nose against a poster as he tried to decipher the fine print in the background of the ad...
Even more scathing were the usually restrained Justices John M. Harlan and Potter Stewart. Harlan called the new pandering rule "an astonishing piece of judicial improvisation" that may inspire new censorship attacks on long permissible classics. If an ad is now adjudged obscene, he suggested, the result could ban Joyce's Ulysses, which was cleared for U.S. sale 33 years ago. "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself," said Stewart. "The Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance. A book worthless to me may convey something of value...
...enemies with insulting little signs. Only last week, after years of resenting The New Yorker magazine's theater reviews, he inserted an advertisement in which the first let ters of each line form an acrostic that sort of makes a monkey out of the magazine that printed it. The ad...
...another ad, he gave the whole scrivening lot a glorious razzberry: even before Subways Are for Sleeping received its predictable panning, Merrick collected seven men with the same names as the New York daily reviewers and sent them to previews of Subways. A week after the show opened, Merrick stuck tongue firmly in cheek and printed their names, their pictures and their reviews of the show (all raves) in a great big blat of a full-page ad. And in the course of a long guerrilla war against Howard Taubman of the Times, he pointedly reprinted one of Taubman...