Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nakatanis' life has been in the increased conveniences, but the Japanese salary man is fast learning a lesson absorbed by his Western counterpart long ago. "Now that all of us have a car, color TV and a stereo," says Nakatani, "we Japanese have begun to hanker for a mink coat for the wife and a foreign-made car." Already, Japanese housewives are complaining about "the servant problem...
Which gossip columnist boasts his own coat hook at Manhattan's Four Seasons and the singular distinction of having loaned Sophia Loren his thermal underwear? (See PRESS...
...long Havana and says his wife cooked Polish chicken for an after-concert gathering the night before. Out comes Lyons' black lizardskin notebook and tiny gold pencil. A few cryptic notes, and he Ts off to Le Pavilion and, finally, the Four Seasons. The latter has a coat hook marked MR. LYONS. A coat, is already there. "Who's been hanging their coat on my hook?" In his consternation, Lyons, of all things, fails to recognize a celebrity: John Updike, sporting a new beard...
...mythology explore hard-sell claims to product superiority. The agencies have created an unearthly band of mnemonic miracle-makers-a White Knight, a Green Phantom, Josephine the lady plumber, Mr. Clean the bacteriophobic eunuch, and the Man from Glad, who is gussied up in platinum hairdo and white trench coat. In one ad, a failing used-car salesman takes a dollop of Listerine mouthwash, and customers start buying without waiting for the sales pitch. In another commercial, a bespectacled, frumpish old maid uses Ice Blue Secret deodorant and is transformed into a glamorous beauty; presumably, even her eyesight is improved...
...informality, absent from most other first-rate productions, that represents Hair's very essence. Technical crews walk about the edges of the platform; Alan, the bearded, blue- jeaned assistant stage manager (this was the first Broadway play in which he'd been allowed to work without coat and tie), walks casually onstage to push aside a no longer needed set; the set operator relaxes, reading Dubrovsky; offstage cast members sit chatting underneath the band; and occasionally members of the audience join in the tribe's escapades. Several weeks ago, a man got carried away during the nude scene, removed...