Word: admen
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...group is the best commercial-singing ensemble largely because of what an adman calls "the cutting edge of Jamie's voice." All four singers deliver their words with the sort of enunciation that makes poets out of admen. "Their words seem to be coming from a foot outside of their mouths in a kind of bas-relief," says one such poet...
...poster artists were early admen. Toulouse-Lautrec glorified the bicycle as well as the poules of Montmartre. Lesser artists painted ads for big new department stores with "fixed prices indicated in plain figures" or automatic baby bottles, "the only one with a pump imitating the breast...
...christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...
...seem different -though their planes are much the same and they charge fares, fly schedules and serve meals that are of agreed-upon similarity. To provide the margin that makes a customer prefer one to another, the airlines labor over service, atmosphere and safety performance. More and more, their admen also stress national characteristics-U.S. flying experience, French cooking, British reliability. Since the majority of transatlantic customers are American, most of the foreign lines try to appeal to their old-country loyalties. With two of the biggest blocs to draw on, Ireland's Aer Lingus and Israel...
Long before Nielsen ratings are printed, TV executives, admen, sponsors, and producers have read Jack Gould, for he is the television critic of the New York Times. As such, he holds in one hand the biggest machete and in the other the biggest nosegay possessed by any TV critic. Always fair, faultlessly responsible, he is on rare occasions trenchant, and on even rarer ones funny - as he was recently when he hailed Joe Valachi as a style-setter for Hollywood mobsters of the future...