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...stage, the name-dropper refers to the dropee in such a way as to imply a certain amount of intimacy between the two. The link may be as tenuous as "I was at a party with Suzanne Somers" or "Donald Sutherland walked into the drugstore while I was buying aspirin," but the speaker associates himself in no uncertain terms with the name he drops. I could never get over the way Woodward and Bernstein used to skirmish this way: Bob would tell Carl he saw Frank Perdue on the bus; Carl would tell Bob he nearly ran Rod McKuen down...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Really, Ronald, They Repulse Me | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...Super-Saver had a key-making machine and computerized check-out. It sold everything from its own brand of moth balls to picnic tables, from gag mugs to ratchet sets. A sign in the window warned customers all summer that Coke and Super-Saver aspirin were on sale only until the end of the week...

Author: By William F. Hammond, | Title: Folding Cardboard in the Back | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Treatment for the flu is by symptom and involves aspirin, fluids and bed rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Influenza Strain Afflicts Harvard | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...some aspirin in the bathroom. Why? What's the matter...

Author: By William F. Powers, | Title: Mellow but Righteous | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...they are used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from Western nations. In partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, the French chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc has invested $500,000 in a factory where 120 Saigonese produce vitamin C, aspirin and cough syrup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Defiant Saigon | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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