Word: danes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this proceeds pretty much as expected, but begins to drag when the gags rarely rise above overplayed puns (Wife: "I haven't finished putting on my face." Husband: "Did your chisel break?") Predictable references to topical material (Dane refusing to fight the Grendels: "My lottery number is 360") are no relief. Fortunately director Fred Carmichael has done an admirable job in milking every bit of humor out of a sparse text and occasionally sparse talent. Christopher Tunnard is a particular disappointment, short of comic timing and vocal talent. Jack Olive, on the other hand, has the vigorous, obscene Hotrocs well...
...gross, but that it often reflects the society it serves. Advertising could be improved, he says, if the agencies refused to knuckle under to insensitive advertisers who think that the only sell is the hard sell. The ad world's most influential innovator, William Bernbach. chairman of Doyle Dane Bernbach, has little patience with tasteless or deceptive ads. "The big thing," he says, "is recognizing that honesty sells. There is no reason why honesty cannot be combined with the skills of persuasion. People are shouted at by so many manufacturers today that they don't know what...
...years-of doors: big doors, little doors, children waiting in front of doors. He held the door for a lady with A and P shopping bags. He opened a door marked "opportunity" to a young black, he held aside a swinging plywood door for a sleek, house-trained Great Dane, he helped a bride over a threshold. Suddenly a huge door appeared, enticingly half-opened, but with no one before...