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Alexander T. Bok '81, a North House assembly delegate, said last night he thinks the House's delegates will end their boycott "if the CDU takes a proper attitude towards the referendum, which means not blitzing us with posters and ad hominem attacks...
That Paramount ad was chillingly effective, bringing into 670 theaters around the country thousands of youths keen to see The Warriors-and eager for trouble. Since the film opened on Feb. 9, three young men have been killed by Warrior-inspired fights, and other brawls have broken out at moviehouses in several cities. More than half a dozen theaters have dropped the film entirely; others are hiring some muscle of their own, which Paramount will pay for. In Washington, B.C., two full-time guards were on duty last week at the Town Downtown and will stay there until The Warriors...
Another explanation, however, is that the original ad, which Paramount has withdrawn, simply brought all the toughs in town to one spot, and trouble was sure to come with them. "If you bring that sort of crowd into the moviehouse," says one Paramount executive, "you will have the same trouble with The Sound of Music...
...along with the famous "Sign of the cat" for Lincoln-Mercury. The theme at Chrysler will be engineering, and Astronaut Neil Armstrong will apparently remain as the corporate spokesman. Whether K&E will be able to improve the fading Chrysler quality image is a major question. Says a Detroit ad agency chief: "Iacocca could not quickly change the company's cars, so he changed what he could-the advertising...
...well to remember that this comes from a character who does not even vote. In addition, pretense to imaginative fiction is frequently dropped for ad hominem attacks on real people: Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook and Henry Kissinger, for example, are branded as men "of limited mentality and unconvincing motive...