Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until 1975, when White Rock switched from paintings and started using photographs of a real, filmily clad woman in some promotional materials. Betty Crocker, the imaginary supercook at General Mills, has had five facelifts since 1936 to make her look younger and trendier. Careful observers may have noticed that Aunt Jemima seems to have joined Weight Watchers in recent years...
Analysts and advertisers seem to agree that love ads are now an important part of the mating game. ''Your Aunt Susan isn't going to find anyone for you," complains Philadelphia Businesswoman Cari Lyn Vinci, who has met 25 men by using ads. Adds Edwin Roberts, manager of classifieds for New York magazine: "If you talk to people who go to singles bars, you just hear a lot of frustration...
...Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. One of Latin America's leading writers transforms the vagaries of his youth into a daring, multilayered novel about love and art in Lima, Peru...
...result was worth it. Tootsie is more than Charley's Aunt updated or Myra Breckenridge toned down. In telling the tale of a man forced to get in touch with the feminine side of his nature and becoming a better man because of the experience, it triumphantly remains a farce for our times, not a tract for them. Despite the many creative hands involved, the picture has perfect comic tonality. It plays as if it were written by one wise and rueful individual, directed by someone who never felt a moment's anxiety...
...when the film presents the five vignettes that Creepshow falls completely flat. The first story, "Father's Day," is a forced version of the skeleton-in-the-old-eccentric-family's-closet theme, replete with the obligatory sinister spinster aunt and a stroll through the family crypt. "Jordy" is yet another variation on the man-eating plant routine, something that's never seemed to work well even in better horror films. "Tide," a rather innocuous revenge fantasy, doesn't even belong among this assortment, and "Crate" is a heavy handed attempt at horror comedy, something else that's never seemed...