Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store promotional displays in Korean. Others have stumbled. A New York Life Insurance Co. ad designed to appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced the spot with one featuring a dragon. Marketers acknowledge that it's worth the time and trouble to get it right. Asian Americans, for example, register better-than-average responses to advertising. The returns on ad dollars spent on Asian...
...According to Cambridge Penal Statute 6ZV-3.2, the use of "Head" in a pun during Head of the Charles weekend constitutes a felony. Miscreants caught bantering about Head aches, Head starts or Head cases all face 60 day jail sentences. The sale of T-shirts invoking unsubtle Head sexual innuendo is punishable by death...
...writing because this highlights a larger problem which worries me greatly as a woman striving for equal rights in the classroom and in the work place. Women should not be harassed at work because of their sex, or for any other reasons; they should not be humiliated by sexual innuendo or inappropriate behavior. But neither should men. In this incident both the man and women were guilty of this insensitivity, yet only the man was faulted...
...plaintive note of frustration and doubt, the ripped-up pieces of paper found at the bottom of his briefcase after he killed himself, was released last week. His note acknowledged mistakes born of innocence and inexperience. But it also contained the very innuendo and suspicion that he so deplored finding all around him in his short residence in Washington. In his view, the FBI, the Republicans and the editors of the Wall Street Journal had all "lied." Harsh words from an innocent. A lawyer knows that there rarely is an absolute truth...
Instead of being humorous, though, the play simply rolls on with repeated laughs that aren't funny the fifth time. The play is loaded with Freudian humor and innuendo that should only be taken in small doses. Although the actors' performances are better than the script merits, the troupe seemed to have lost the enthusiasm it had when it performed "Baby With the Bathwater" just a few weeks...