Word: adman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furiously swinging an ax, the London adman whacks his desk into sawdust. "Andrew, darling," soothes the boss, "you're always threatening to resign." Andrew darling's hackwork is nothing compared with what Producer-Director Michael Winner (The Jokers) has done to this splintery British satire on the high cost of selling...
Having demolished his desk, the rebellious adman this time really does cut loose. Determined to go straight, Andrew (Oliver Reed) leaves the business, the boss, and the ball-and-chain. To further prove his good intentions, he even jettisons his two mistresses. Soon he gets an honest job at the Gadfly, a drab little literary magazine, where his principal duty is rejecting manuscripts. The rest of the time he accepts the adoration of a puddingy secretary (Carol White) who finds him as irresistible as he obviously finds himself...
...from the Post Office Building where Dr. Benjamin Spock's case is being heard stands a sign that reads in large green letters: "Boston Five." A second look reveals smaller letters that complete the title of a branch office of The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. But the anonymous adman who decided to capitalize those two particular words inadvertantly provided a sort of marquee for the drama of the so-called Boston Five and their fight against government prosecution for illegally counseling draft resistance...
...this suggestion demands a skeptical response. For when Fiedler leaves the well-beaten bush of literature and psychology for territory as complex "and mystifying as the human nervous system, he is a tourist who does not speak the language. He has an unfortunate way of composing statements full of adman phrases such as "New Man" and the "West of Here and Now." He has a penchant for over-categorizine and overreaching, as when he calls Marilyn Monroe the pop-culture version of the Indian love goddess, bleached out "under the impossibly bright lights of the movie...
...about to retire. Like any self-respecting adman these days, he is not really out of a job; he is simply getting ready to set up shop. "In due course," Harper announced, "I shall make known the program of Marion Harper & Associates...