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There are a couple of false notes. Though the setting is Michigan, the hick accents seem to have wandered up from somewhere near Little Rock. The early scenes of Francine and Mickey's courtship depend too predictably on '60s pop songs for period flavor. But most of the details ring true, from the woefully inadequate bromides offered by elders ("a woman's got to take the bitter with the sweet, you know") to the constant background din created by the children, to the way Mickey childishly brandishes his fists at his cowering wife, a neighborhood bully grown...
James T. Carlin, now a researcher for Pepsico Inc., fried 312 pounds of potatoes as part of his doctoral thesis in search of the secret that make McDonald's french fries so "special." He isolated and identified more than 400 different flavor compounds in the fries-- 296 of which were for the first time discovered as constituents of potatoes or potato products...
Despite the strong liberal flavor of the state, politicians from across the ideological spectrum agree that party affiliations in the state legislature--generally considered the best indicator of electoral sympathies--do not accurately reflect the mind-set of the state...
Other top campaigns picked by Ad Age's panel: Leo Burnett's program for Marlboro cigarettes ("Come to where the flavor is"), McCann-Erickson's efforts for Alka-Seltzer ("Try it, you'll like it"), and Doyle Dane's campaign for Avis ("We try harder...
Partly because of new events inaugurated for women-the cycling road races, the marathon, even synchronized swimming-the Games had a strong feminine strain. They also had an unavoidable American flavor. Two of the world's three best teams were missing, after all. The first American gold-medal volleyball team was thoroughly unbothered by the asterisk. Nationalism was rampant but ugliness restrained. The boxing mobs were as sour as the judging: it is probably too soon to tell Evander Holyfield, a U.S. light heavyweight disqualified for not pulling his punches, that in the end this heartache...