Word: bufferin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the council stays divided, and Ralph J. Dunphy remains in the City Manager's office. Last week, he asked for an appropriation of $100 for medical expenses of his office. One councillor--a pharmacist by trade--suggested that the money would go to Bufferin. His colleagues laughed, but not too heartily, for they knew the headaches that Cambridge politics can bring.John G. ShortA meeting of the City Council...
...Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin, Vat 69, Rise) and bits of Old Glory, he is now something else, something both more and less than Vian's Smurtz...
There are nights on the tube when Scourby (pronounced Score-bee) seems to be the only voice in town. He has sold Excedrin and Bufferin, touted Mrs. Filbert's Margarine and eulogized the Peace Corps. He has lent his narrative authority to TV documentaries from the classic Victory at Sea to the National Geographic special "Amazon" on CBS last month. And even when he is not available, Scourby remains a resident genus on Madison Avenue. Creative directors are constantly demanding of their casting departments, "Get me a Scourby voice," or "I need the Scourby sound." The commercial business being...
...York's Tom Wesselmann silk-screened the image of a nude onto plastic, then shaped it to capture its contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...
...bisonburger, he had to pronounce it "not for the Japanese palate." Since television in most of the world is government-owned and often without advertising, tourists are fascinated by American television, particularly the commercials, which left Swedish Visitors Inga and Rune Svensson with the impression that "Americans live on Bufferin...