Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud ovation for Congress on their recent ban of cigarette advertising from television [Jan. 11]. No more disillusionment of springtime in winter, tasteless bad grammar, tar and nicotine counts, special filtration and Micronite filters, cigarette-holder comparisons, dancing and singing cigarette packs, smokers who would rather fight than switch, etc. Now let's eliminate smoking in public places...
...East pretend to be interested in how pictures are made, but if you tell them anything, they never see the ventriloquist for the doll. Even the intellectuals, who ought to know better, like to hear about the pretensions, extravagances, and vulgarities?tell them pictures have a private grammar and watch the blank look come into their faces...
...this book so bad? Actually it's not any worse than the war-story thrillers that I used to read in the grammar school library about soldiers fighting Geronimo and the Apaches in the southwest. The American troops-young, obedient and brave, always ex-Union Army troops, fresh from victory over the rebels at home. Riding out in neat cavalry file with shiny boots and new automatic rifles to face the Indians. The Indians-brave. but crafty and cruel. with old single-bolt rifles. The soldiers always had families and sweethearts at home, the Indians never did; but the Indians...
...Jewish mother (Lillian Adams) who chides her son the doctor about the expensive "opticals" on his "fancy-schmancy" Plymouth is bound to offend every Jewish mother from Barbra Streisand to Golda Meir. Winston's "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" campaign verges on sadism. But then, unless R.J. Reynolds can prove between now and Jan. 1 that cigarette smoking may not be hazardous to your health, all cigarette ads will be off the air. Except for the vignettes showing Benson & Hedges' longer cigarettes forever getting caught in beards, clashing cymbals and elevator doors, none...
...East Cambridge from Italy. His father worked in the Squire Meat Company's factory. "We lived in a company row house and bought at the company store," he said. Vellucci is very sensitive about the lack of formal education he has had. "I went to the Thorndike-Wellington grammar school through seventh grade, PERIOD! You got a big period there...