Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July Hurt set up a meeting attended by the three sponsoring companies. Warner-Lambert, which was advertising Listerine mouthwash and Dentyne chewing gum, withdrew from Dallas, Charlie's Angels, Soap and Saturday Night Live. A company spokesman said that the change was due to "marketing considerations" and, in the case of Saturday Night Live, to the fact that the company could not prescreen a live program. Hurt then removed Warner-Lambert, the eighth largest television advertiser, with billings of $60 million in 1979, from the boycott list...
...scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee with Miss America. Christine Baranski zeroes in on this character's vacuous dedication and chews her words like stale gum. Griffin Dunne has a sensitive trigger finger on his role throughout...
...this bashful yet forthright, dimwitted yet wise "woman of the people." This character is difficult to play because Stoppard uses it as both a center-spring for the plot and as a mouthpiece for his moralizing, and the two are at odds. Walsh succeeds only half-way: her sluttish, gum-chewing, boneheaded secretary is so convincing that when she starts to write the parliamentary committee's draft report, you feel the words are coming from Stoppard--because you know they couldn't come from...
Periodontal disease is a bacterial infection of the gum that destroys the tissue and bone that support the teeth. Tetracycline concentrates in the pockets between the gums and teeth and slows the rate of bone loss, Jeffcoat said...
...cameras and delivers overdramatic monologues from Star Wars-like props, he skillfully blends fact with fiction, leaving viewers perplexed. By adding gimmicks and schmaltz to fascinating scientific subjects, Sagan cheapens them. This type of presentation imbues science with the razzle-dazzle of show biz and reduces it to bubble gum mentality. Fortunately a flick of the TV dial can leave Sagan out in space...