Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Repeating a Formula. Now that the News-Call has disappeared, the two remaining San Francisco papers intend to boost their ad rates as much...
...story of Warhol, Sedgwick et al., ad nauseam, was an indigestible item in and of itself. However, the additional misfortune of printing it along with the agonizing Los Angeles riot story lent a nightmarish, Kafkaesque irony to both pieces. One wonders just which group is the more adolescent, futile and self-destructive. At least the Watts rioters had damn strong and pretty valid motivation for their temporary loss of reason...
...city's new top entertainment center. "It's like Greenwich Village in New York, only very much better," says one admirer. "Greenwich Village has gotten too garish. Old Town is less jammed together and touristy. I think artists really live there." So do lawyers, doctors, publishers, ad men and all manner of confirmed city dwellers who want a bit of backyard and individuality along with the common comforts of home...
...seconds each or to "crawl along" slogans that slither along the bottom of the tube even as the program goes on. Though Japanese pain-killer commercials are forbidden by Japan's strict food and drug laws to show pain and happiness in the same sequence, these same ads have helped television ad revenues to double to $300 million in three years...
Even countries that resisted TV ad vertising-notably Holland, Denmark and Norway-now find themselves debating whether to relax their bans against it. And Britain's venerable government-operated British Broadcasting Corp., where a few years back the very mention of advertising was enough to evoke "cries of horror and alarm," as the Economist once put it, has now begun to reconsider its stand against commercials...