Word: galloping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Advertising is a world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health." The Fed eral Trade Commission, which has long labored to deflate the more extravagant pitches, last week published proposed guidelines to ensure that any celebrity shilling a product actually uses the thing if he or she claims...
...secret-society pin, a silver matchbook from his wedding and-not to be believed-a condom. Melish is a clear case of arrested development, a closet sentimentalist carrying a cherished artifact of his hot-to-trot days at a time when everyone else seems to be in full gallop...
What makes Sy Hersh gallop? He explains it in his expansive way: "I'm smart and I work hard." Hersh was brought up in a middle-class Jewish family in Chicago (his father ran a dry-cleaning shop). "I had a happy enough childhood," he told one interviewer, "lived for baseball, had no idea what I wanted to be." Which may explain why Hersh, a B student at the University of Chicago, dropped out of law school after a year and drifted into journalism in 1959. He ended up with the Associated Press but abruptly quit when...
...dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina's father, the King, takes her for a ride one day when he reviews the troops, and dies soon afterward. Director Anthony Harvey has chosen to render this event symbolically, by having a riderless white stallion gallop off toward the sunset through a column of tattered battle flags...
...their 28-28 battle. Running-back Don Fanelli led the Big Red's attack with 154 yards on 33 carries and two touchdowns. Penn's Adolph "Beep-Beep" Belizeare took game honors, racking up a total of 174 yards and two TD's, the second a 61-yard gallop on a punt return. Jack Wixted also ripped through Cornell's defense for 103 yards and a touchdown...