Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holladay, Utah, was having trouble opening a plastic two-liter bottle of Diet 7-Up. So she took a wrench to it, as she had many times in the past, but the results were disastrous. The top shot off like a champagne cork and struck her in the left eye, destroying most of the iris...
Watch out, Folger's and Maxwell House. Coca-Cola is circling the breakfast table and coffee break. The Atlanta-based company is promoting the top-selling soft drink, which has only about one-third less caffeine than coffee, as the eye-opener of choice. Billboards and radio commercials in Atlanta, New Orleans and Knoxville urge people to have "a Coke in the morning." Local bottlers echo the theme in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida...
...older he grows, the harder it gets for Captain Midlife to take this ( season. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. Five weeks of souped-up revels strung out like dead leaf fires. Not that January is any great shakes either, with its glass-eye skies threatening to shatter; or loony February; or March blowing about one's head like some parent ranting in a never-cleaned-up room. Still, it is this season that gets the Captain down, and up, and down again. Poor Captain Midlife. Can anybody out there lend him a hand...
...Birds of primary hue -- red, yellow and blue -- lure their behemoth friend through poppy fields and banana groves searching for tranquillity. It will surprise no one that they find it back in their own back veld. Happily, the simpleminded text is augmented with whimsical drawings that show a mature eye and a youthful...
...substance. Too adroit to be trapped into indiscretions, he made no news and obviously did not intend to. But he left the impression he wanted, of a man prepared to be conciliatory who would never give away the store. Television is no place for serious argument anyway; the eye demands distraction, and the camera zeroes in on Gorbachev's gesturing hands. Where television is unexcelled is the chance to observe a man's demeanor as he answers questions that he has not seen in advance...