Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news of spreading corporate cutbacks. One consumer sounding after another is recording the development of a batten-down-the-hatches mentality. Since Iraq invaded Kuwait, consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in 44 years. In a national survey of 500 consumers conducted last week by the Leo Burnett advertising agency, 82% said the economy was in worse shape now than it was a year ago, while 40% said they were feeling the pinch themselves...
...SLEEP WITH ANGER. A charming wastrel (Danny Glover) brings the dark past into the restless heart of a middle-class black family. Charles Burnett's drama is an acute and beautifully played evocation of the down-home ghosts that may haunt and taunt any urban family...
...clothes were supposed to make up for this lack but instead sowed the seeds for a later abhorrence of the yuppie brand of materialism. "Quality time" didn't cut it for them either. In a survey to gauge the baby busters' mood and tastes, Chicago's Leo Burnett ad agency discovered that the group had a surprising amount of anger and resentment about their absentee parents. "The flashback was instantaneous and so hot you could feel it," recalls Josh McQueen, Burnett's research director. "They were telling us passionately that quality time was exactly what was not in their lives...
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE CAMPAIGN, MOMMY? Now You Know: The Personal Odyssey of Kitty Dukakis will not be published until September, but a number of Hollywood people, including Carol Burnett, have already inquired about movie or TV rights. One of Kitty's friends describes the memoir as "an unbelievably frank and honest personal story." The author discusses her struggles with drug and alcohol dependency, the Dukakises' prickly relationship with Jesse Jackson, and her sense of desolation at the loss of the 1988 election. The book does not disclose the couple's future plans, but there is speculation that...
Cover: Photograph by David Burnett -- Contact Press Images