Word: flannelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bobby-soxers and song faddists, who burst into Los Cerrillos airport last month to greet Canadian Rock-'n'-Roller Paul Anka, causing $25,000 worth of damage before airport crews cooled them off with a riot hose. But Anka, who affects boyish dignity and grey flannel suits, looks like a Boston banker compared to the Chileans' own pride, a character in far sharper threads who bills himself as Peter Rock. An exponent of the guitar-whanging, hip-swiveling school, Rock packs them into the smoky dens, where colericos meet to beat, and is said to lead...
...decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel through and through...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. A friend's excellent biography of the late Albert Lasker, the Madison Avenue pioneer who invented "That School Girl Complexion," dominated U.S. advertising, and cut the pattern for its grey-flannel suit...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder happily combines a cynical commentary on grey-flannel suitors with a superb comedy of men's-room humors and watercooler politics...