Word: ballyhooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
Last week the planners felt the first big wallop of another challenge: through local stations in major viewing areas, a broadside of some 2,500 recently available pre-1949 Hollywood movies began hitting the TV screen as if it were a bull's-eye. In a blaze of ballyhoo, Manhattan's WCBS began unwrapping its $20 million package of 725 M-G-M films at the rate of two a day. With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even...
...mostly-bad drama, nor even because it serves as one of the decade's most elaborate monuments to the union between God and Mammon, but because it is dishonest and almost immoral. After Mr. de Mille and his publicity men have swathed the picture in clouds of religious ballyhoo by such stunts as the incredible full-page ad in the New York Times citing the laudatory comments of a number of religious leaders, he reneges and will not have it so. In a sugary little speech flashed on the screen before the picture opens, the producer-director declares that...
...Republicans can hardly be criticized for agreeing to take part in a television press conference supposedly under the aegis of Cornell. Their truth serum ballyhoo is good politics. But it is most unfortunate that Cornell has allowed herself to be duped into appearing as the sponsor of any political party...
...night some 13 million Americans forgo reading, bypass the movies and other forms of entertainment to watch a carefully picked group of eccentric specialists give everyone a vicarious feeling of cupidity. Last week promoters of the show tried to lure a bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England: Mr. Randolph Churchill." After wild applause, Master of Ceremonies Hal March moved in: Hal: What...