Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blond Venus with overbite--and her older lover are found murdered. He is wearing shoes by Bally; hers are red leather Charles Jourdan. Anyone who thinks the cause of death is more important than who made the footgear has missed the point. With flashbacks, overheated sex scenes and brand names, Gwen Davis announces her arrival in the high-rent district of Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins: "A riveted audience at Elaine's, a heavy-breathing browsing crowd at Rizzoli's." Forget serious. The hollandaise sauce from La Cote Basque that Miranda pours over her lover, the custom-made sex apparatus...
...allergy medication in Houston and Orlando. Two weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week Auburn's cyanide scare spread to yet another brand of pain-killer. During a random check of a pharmacy in the Seattle suburb, Food and Drug Administration officials found poisoned capsules of Anacin-3, made by American Home Products. Within a day, the State of Washington imposed a 90-day ban on the sale of most nonprescription capsule drugs...
...major corporate merger. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Federal Trade Commission said it would sue to stop PepsiCo from buying Seven-Up, and Coca-Cola from swallowing Dr Pepper. Pepsi's bid to merge the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. soft-drink brands was announced in January, and industry leader Coke agreed to buy the No. 4 brand a month later...
...home, while European and Asian tourists can feel at home abroad visiting Disney World's ersatz Eiffel Tower, Piazza San Marco and Japanese pagoda. Between March and September, U.S. amusement parks and theme attractions will have lured 235 million visitors through the turnstiles (average admission: $10) for a robust brand of professional patriotism. During the show at Florida Cypress Gardens, 30 miles from Disney World, a stunt man gliding high above the crowd effuses, "One thing I can see from here--or from any height--is that America sure is beautiful...
America's love of instantaneousness probably stemmed from its rush to conquer great distances, at first with the pony express and clipper ships, later with microwaves and satellites. In the consumer marketplace, speediness became an ever stronger selling point. The first mass-marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote...