Word: blading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines of the men behind the animation, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding (TIME, Oct. 19). Like the meatball ad, Gillette razor blade spots take the viewer into a studio taping session. The best ad has a director trying to induce Pitcher Tom Seaver to describe his shave as "closer." But every time the director says "closer," Seaver merely moves the pack of blades closer to his face or the camera. Eventually the director gives...
...artifices of well-made verse and well-made novel, she convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one. Yet the Atwood message is beyond formulated pessimism; it has the rhythmic cycling of hope and despair natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass in a boulder's crack keeps thrusting through. And so marriage, under the toughest scrutiny by Atwood the novelist, eventually is seen by Atwood the poet as "the edge of the receding glacier" where we crouch- where painfully and with wonder...
...Galopin reported that federally-appointed tax collectors often tripled tax rates set in Fort Lamy and pocketed the difference. Nomads wearing tribal Toubou belt daggers were fined $53 for sporting the blade-a Gtiff fine in a country where the annual average income per person is less than...
...Francis Redmond, 50, a businessman from Yonkers, N.Y., had committed suicide three months ago in his Shanghai cell. Redmond, who was serving a life sentence on charges that he had been the "chief American spy" in China, reportedly slashed the veins in his arms and wrists with a razor blade and died from loss of blood...
ARCHITECTURAL GLASS. About 100,000 people accidentally walk through glass doors each year. Some bleed to death before medical aid can arrive. One father testified that he barely managed to stop a glass shard dropping in its casing from falling like a guillotine blade on the neck of his dazed and bleeding son. Serious injuries occur because most doors are made with ordinary glass that can break at a slight blow. The solution is obvious: require that household doors be made with safety glass, which crumbles instead of shattering...