Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last December a funny thing happened. Blackman brought his bag of tricks, many of which do their best to stretch the Ivy rules, back to a familiar playground...
...million on advertising, much of it unabashedly political. Mobil alone spends about $5 million a year, and from 1973 to mid-1976 not a penny went to product advertisements. Instead, the entire budget went to buying huge amounts of newspaper, magazine and television ads devoted to the now-familiar oil company theme--that somehow the government and those no-good liberals were out to get the struggling, public-minded energy entrepreneurs...
...opening 15 minutes of Dirty Hands reek of a doomed cliche: each scene serves up all-too-familiar cinema staples. The film begins with an apparently innocuous shot of a handsome man in his 20s going about the business of guiding his airborne kite, an activity which conveniently lands on the alluring buttocks of a naked Romy Schneider. Unruffled, she asks him if he wants his kite, and the young adonis replies in the affirmative. But before Schneider lets him out of her sight, she probes further, "Is there anything else you want...
...experience in the boycott cities was as diverse and eventful as the field office work had been. To this city person, however, it was all much more familiar. The work there consisted of fundraisers and support organizing of all kinds--some worked on a benefit yard sale, some sold union graphics, buttons, and jewelry on the beach. I worked door to door, and discovered that with occasional exceptions, people give inversely to how much money they make. The other main activity was continuing to put pressure on Hemmet Wholesale's retailer outlets...
...Saffir, 47, a longtime aide to former Senator James Buckley, intends to begin publishing what would be New York City's first new major daily in more than a decade. The paper will have a strikingly modern design, an initial pressrun of 200,000 and, perhaps, a hauntingly familiar name: the Trib...