Word: blurbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as she's at it why not draw on one's womanly sensitivity, experience and powers of observation to write what the PR blurb describes as the story of two girls, "one self-assured, perhaps even aggressive, eager for companionship, and decidedly on the make," and the other young lady, the narrator, "shy, sensitive, and cautious, yet at the same time eager for a relationship she fears but finds constantly in her dreams," and later how "in the New York world of abundant drink and casual fornication, the relationship between the two girls becomes, in a sense, reversed." Fine...
...regular-sized, un filtered cigarettes contain "an orginal blend of the choicest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, producing a distinctively mild, rich, and pleasant smoke," according to a blurb on the package back...
...achieve this "novel of agonizing suspense," says the jacket blurb, Author Westheimer "drew heavily" on his own years as a P.W. in both Italy and Germany, but the only sign of his insight is that all his characters can say "prisoner-of-war camp" in Italian. The cast, as in all prison-camp stories, includes a good-guy priest, a psychopath, a bragging coward and a German spy, and Westheimer makes a bad job worse by being one of those fantastically clever writers who tell everyone's age by saying how old his face looks younger than. Despite such...
...multiplied virally all over the country. A Harvard professor at a recent conference struck a blow at "students made out of ticky tacky." Actress Rita Gam used the words ticky tacky at least 100 times at a Manhattan dinner party last week. A realty firm in Berkeley has a blurb claiming that it sells "distinguished houses, not ticky tacky." After hearing the song, a professor at the University of Miami said: "I've been lecturing my classes about middleclass conformity for a whole semester. Here's a song that says it all in 1½ minutes...
...walk again!" As the voice fades unevenly, the screen dissolves into a collage of mushroom clouds puffing noiselessly into the sky. Slowly a female voice rises in the background, singing a langorous "We Shall Meet Again." By now the audience has stopped laughing; few remember the short blurb that opened the film: "The U. S. Air Force assures you that what you are to see can never happen...