Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mass Marketing. Picture this concrete factory in Southern California turning out millions of Mod pants a day. Just like cars, or skateboards. Teeny-boppers Inc. But are those herringbones that come from Brooks and J. Press and the A. shop, so different from one another? And those button-down shirts. All right, so one has a flap on the pocket and the other doesn't have a pocket...
However, you failed to solve one little mystery concerning Mrs. Child. What is the large, round badge she wears over her heart-an old De Gaulle button...
...given a routine physical examination. Then the otolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat specialists), headed by Dr. Wilbur J. Gould of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, reconnoitered the presidential larynx, the territory in which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left by his gallbladder operation. Then the two groups...
...rich man hunter (Shelley Fabares) who offers him $5,000 to make beautiful music for her alone. Another is a lady sociologist (Diane McBain) who wants to interview him in depth, just to prove that her "analysis of the mating motive is right on the button." Still another (Deborah Walley) is a lady instrumentalist who offers him a mean rhythm section and something that in her wide Midwestern accent sounds like "goremay...
...average voter just isn't interested. Either the polemics are too complex to entice the reader past the first few paragraphs of newspaper accounts or issues are neatly trimmed to campaign button size. No candidate seems to have connected the issues, to see them as part of a broader problem, and no one has promised sparkling solutions...