Word: dabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With their vast and relentless power of amplification, the writers of commercials sprinkle more tag lines and catch phrases into the conversation than the poets, fettered to their paper and print, can ever hope to put into the American idiom. "A little dab'll do ya," "Fly the friendly skies" and "Leave the driving to us" are in fact a kind of pop poetry...
...cast, notably Lilli Palmer as a sad-eyed, burned-out leftist, and the omnipresent John Gielgud as Sebastian's chief. But good actors need more than each other in order to make a film work, and in the end Naitsabes spelled backward is only a promising idea mishandled. Dab wohs...
Between firefights, with her Uzi submachine gun cuddled in one hand, she was frequently taking a moment to apply a dab of "moisturizing cream" to her sunburned face or trying to comb out her tangled braids. And with good cause. Accompanying her through most of the campaign was Colonel Dov Sion, 46, an aide to Sharon. A month after war's end, the colonel and the correspondent were married...
...might run a commercial for HABITS (Homelies Against Beautifuls in Television Spots). Since the dawn of TV, advertisers have crowded the screen with dashingly handsome men and curvaceously lovely women telling the world that Brylcreem's "little dab'll do ya" or "Ban takes the worry out of being close." The implication was that if viewers drained their sinus cavities, mopped their floors and swabbed their armpits with the Beautifuls' products, then they too would somehow be Beautifuls. Ugly notion, says John O'Toole of Foote, Cone & fielding: "The younger generation we have today does...
...Wonderland. Since this modern, de-animalized version had Freudian overtones, the BBC declared it unsuitable for children under twelve. But Muggeridge won warm reviews anyway. "Mr. Muggeridge's whole life," wrote Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian, "has been leading up to the evening when he would dance a dab-toed quadrille, before a carefully prepared audience, against a sky of gathering gloom...