Word: hut
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...slightly more salacious than Scarlett the tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets of chastity!" he yells while...
...care propagandists like Harry and Louise have become ubiquitous on TV lately, but not all the messages are getting through. In the Washington area, four network affiliates sparked a free-speech controversy by turning down a 2- min. ad, produced by a pro-Clinton group, which attacks the Pizza Hut company for failing to provide health coverage for all its workers. Pizza Hut, owned by TV advertising giant Pepsico, has been a foe of the Clinton plan's employer mandate...
After Pizza Hut heard about the ad, its lawyers threatened the producers and affiliates with legal action on the grounds that the commercials conveyed false information. "They're not going to say this, but it's a worry about advertising," contended Robert Chlopak, a consultant to the Health Care Reform Project, which conceived the ads. But on Friday, Pizza Hut president Allan Huston appeared to back down from the company's threat. As a result, the reform project will try again to broadcast...
Thermil Salem is a soldier who worked as a driver for a group of antigang policemen who are feared for their brutality. Secretly, Salem supported President Aristide. "My teeth cannot speak about those days," he says. He served two jail terms. Living outside Port-au-Prince in a brick hut that also serves as a voodoo temple, he never goes out now. "They have spies all around," he says...
...this marketing strategy. Getting messages across to audiences that don't fully realize they are receiving them is as old as the subliminal spots for popcorn and soda that advertisers flashed on movie screens in the 1950s. More recently, for instance, mtv blended commercials for a Pizza Hut delivery service with its regular programming by showing pizzas arriving by horseback or out of the ocean for its video jockeys...