Word: commerciales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When her first TV series debuted on Oct. 15, 1951, there was no way to tell that Lucille Ball was beginning an apparently immortal love affair with the American public, and not much reason even to expect commercial success. Ball was a comely redhead with a semisultry voice and knockout...
Despite the sophistication that underlay her slapstick and the respect she commanded as the first woman to head a studio, Desilu Productions, Ball said she saw herself as "not an idea girl but a doer." Like the silent comedians she studied (Buster Keaton, her onetime office mate at MGM, taught...
The most important commercial implication should be the obsolescence of "Ollie North for President" paraphernalia. As a convicted felon, North is no longer eligible to be elected as President--or as dog-catcher, for that matter.
"One problem is overdevelopment," he said. "We as a community need to build more affordable housing and slow the growth of luxury commercial buildings...It's necessary to defeat propostion 1-2-3 because [rent control] provides protection for the elderly and poor."
Not wanting to stand in the way of initiative, I let him lead the way. My grandparents' house backs up on an alley that leads to a commercial street, Ford Parkway. There we could find plenty of shops, a gas station and a mostly elderly clientele.