Word: ad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately the exploitation of women's bodies to peddle almost anything is commonplace as evidenced by the beer ad on the back page of the Saturday, March 17 Crimson, the issue containing the poster article. The ad features a drawing of a young woman throwing off a beer label wrap to reveal her big-breasted, round-bottomed, scantily-clad body...
After stealing a service break to take the first set from Weise and Wade Batterton, the Crimson tandem broke Weise's serve at 6-5 to send the second set to a breaker. With Batterton serving at four-all. Shaw returned two backhands from the ad-court, then hit a high forehand volley that Weise leaped for but netted. Point, game, set, match, and team match...
...Such an ad might be penned to describe a collection of "documentary comic books," the first of which went on sale this week in U.S. college and trade bookstores. Already selling briskly in Europe and Latin America, the cheeky seriocomics treat great thinkers with snappy drawings and humorous cartoon panels, presumably to appeal to the generation and others intimidated by reading the originals. "We're combining the popular Donald Duck form with serious intellectual thought," argues Pantheon Books' Tom Engelhardt, U.S. editor of the series' first title, the 158-page Marx for Beginners...
...other clown, Speed, played by Paul Dunn, is not so funny. Dunn speaks Shakespeare's prose like an AM radio announcer reading a Datsun ad. What is worse, Lacey has him stand at all times with his weight on one leg and the other knee thrust out at a right angle. Every line or so he shifts his weight. The effect becomes very distracting, and makes Dunn look like he needs a trip to the john...
...redheaded knockout for an aide. A good ole Southern boy for an adviser. He's one funny, wild and crazy guy." So read CBS's ad for Mister Dugan in TV Guide, and lots of viewers were probably looking forward to seeing any, wild and crazy guy last Sunday night, not to mention the redheaded knockout. But a not very funny thing happened on the way to the tube: just three days before the show was supposed to go on the air, Norman Lear's T.A.T. Communications Co. suddenly yanked it away, leaving CBS, which was still...