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While Playwright Wasserman's motives are pro-human and antiauthoritarian, he crudely mistakes outrage for rage, license for liberty, and intellectual dandruff for ideas. It is rather a pity, for at moments he shows a gift for lighting up secret crannies of the human heart...
Almost from the moment that his chemists start to work on a new product, Lavin's advertising men are preparing saturation campaigns. Even before Alberto-Culver finished developing its Subdue dandruff shampoo, the admen had filmed the TV commercials. If test audiences respond enthusiastically to the commercials, Lavin brings out the product. At times Lavin has put more than 50% of his sales into advertising, this year will invest well over $30 million. Television will...
...incoming air. Whitfield's trick is to make the clean air from the filters keep the room clean. It flows at 1 m.p.h. (a very faint breeze) across the workbench and past the people working at it. Workmen can dress in ordinary clothes and smoke if they desire. Dandruff, tobacco smoke, pencil dust and any other particles generated are carried away by the clean air, whisked down through the grating floor, and discharged outdoors. Every six seconds the room gets a change of ultra-clean air. No particles get a chance to circulate, and as a result, Physicist Whitfield...
...skeptical when they read that things are just short of perfect in Pala-"a small island completely surrounded by twenty-nine hundred million mental cases." And why did not Huxley heed the warning of one of his own characters that "Eastern philosophers are often rather bad talkers"? Weight of Dandruff. Huxley's hero is William Farnaby, a successful journalist who blunders into Pala by inadvertence and a fortuitous shipwreck. In Huxley's eyes, Farnaby represents a sickness in the soul of modern man. With his "flayed ferocious grin," Farnaby is aware of his own wretchedness and the corruption...
Stumping for President, Quadros put aside the undignified platform gimmicks he used in state politics. He combed his hair, tightened his tie, brushed the dandruff off his shoulders, and never once pulled a sandwich from his pocket in mid-harangue. He avoided personal attacks on Lott, refused to sling corruption charges indiscriminately...