Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your issue gave us a lot of corn pone to swallow...
...real story in this scenario is the subsequent fan reaction--an almost total boycott that seemed almost the result of some joint action. The stadium deteriorated from a bowl of crackling rice crispies to a scattering of sceptical, soggy corn flakes...
...Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Arlo Guthrie, they are truly the harbingers of autumn. It matters little whom you choose; the Pilgrims at Plymouth partook indiscriminately of foods both familiar and exotic--maize and corn, turkey and chicken-dogs; it mattered little. Having partaken of the fruits of the earth, having experienced the God-given bounties of the soil, they were renewed. And surely they fancied themselves well-girt against the cruel winter that followed. And they blessed Plymouth, and not surprisingly, they called it Plymouth Rock. Later...
...script at NBC was carefully plotted: Jane Pauley, 25, the corn-fed Catherine Deneuve who was the leading contender for a cut-down version of Barbara Walters' old job on the Today show, would join the program on Oct. 4-the same day, cunningly enough, that Million-Dollar Barbara started work at the ABC Evening News. That timing would have helped blunt the effect of ABC's extravagant promotion campaign to celebrate Walters' change of venue, and perhaps helped minimize NBC's embarrassment at losing television's No. 1 newswoman to a rival...
...campaign. Like MacDougall, Rafshoon will rely principally on 5-min. film clips that will be used on the networks. As in the primaries, the Carter ads are of the cinema verite variety, illustrating the nominee's vision of America. They show him mingling with voters, caressing corn stalks near his farm, and extemporizing upon his stands on specific issues. Rafshoon is repeating a strategy he successfully employed during the battle for the nomination: planting 30-sec. spots on TV shows such as Lawrence Welk and Hee-Haw, favored by down-home Americans. Both TV and print ads hammer home...