Word: flak
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...probably get flak for selling out," sighs Deborah Harry, the peroxided lead singer of Blondie. But given the mega-figure offer she got to model Murjani jeans, perhaps the iconoclastic fans of rock s new wave will understand why their darling became a tool of bourgeois fashion. Taping her second TV commercial for the hot-selling trousers, Blondie's blond took a philosophical view of her new ad venture. "I have been promoting the greatest American product, rock 'n' roll. Now," she explains, she is into "promoting another great American product, jeans." Into them very nicely. Never...
...sources close to the office said the job, which Schmitt privately refers to as "the flak," will involve a lot of public relations work with the press...
Those of us who decided to spend these two weeks talking to people as they came to register for the draft feared at first that we might catch a lot of flak. But the super-patriots are gone; yeah, one or two guys made meant-to-be-overheard remarks about the "faggots" or "communists." But almost everybody wanted to stop and talk, and almost none of them were happy...
Mother Jones' covers can be blatantly sensational (the 1977 anti-Pinto effort featured a woman trapped in a burning car), and some critics complain that the magazine gives more flak than fact. Contributors, paid $700 to $1,000 for feature-length articles, are known for their ponderous prose. Explains Dowie: "When they should have been in class learning to write like William Buckley and George Will, they were on the front lines...
...Daingerfield, Texas, and fire blank cartridges. Thus most of the 350 worshipers in the church last week thought it was just another example of play-acting when Alvin Lee King III, 46, burst in as the congregation was singing More About Jesus. King was wearing Army fatigues, a flak jacket and helmet, and carrying an arsenal: an AR-15 rifle with a bayonet, an M-1 rifle, a pearl-handled .22-cal. pistol and a .38-cal. pistol. Slung over his shoulder was a pack stuffed with 250 rounds of ammunition...