Word: finnishness
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...Finnair ad, seeking to convince Americans that "great vacations start with flying Finnish," featured a fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women...
...line between what is tasteful and offensive, humorous and insulting in advertising seems, like the line between treason and righteous rebellion, to be largely a matter of timing. Witness a current ad campaign by the California Milk Advisory Board and an aborted one by Finnair, the Finnish airline. The milk ads, which a few years ago might have seemed merely innocuous, are under fire for alleged sexism and racism; the Finnair ad has been withdrawn because of protests that it made light of a subject of growing concern to feminists, judges and others: wife beating...
...always the Crimson's arsenal of bionic freshmen supplied the lion's share of the team's points. Backstroker Geoff Seelen stroked 200 yards to yet another impressive victory in a time of 1:58.07. Finnish phenomenon Tuomo Kerola frogkicked to his usual 200-yd. breaststroke triumph in 2:13.57. And of course, all-world Bobby Hackett whipped the field in the 200 freestyle...
...third place for the first half of the race, the former Finnish Olympian proceeded to let loose with the frog kick of a bionic amphibian to overtake Hector in the last 50 yards...
...catch was Finnish Olympian Tuomo Kerola, whose 2:10.38 in the 200-yd. breaststroke is the seventh best time in the nation this year. He also snared butterfliers Dan Menichella and Campari Knoeffler and backstroke Geoff Seelen, all high-school All-Americans who have consistently gone under two minutes as the top performers in their respective events this years. Add to that crew sprinter Julian Mack and distance-man Michael Coglin, who have emerged while still in the infant stages of their college careers as two of the East's finest freestylers, and you see that Orschiedt has created...