Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...messages have changed over the years since 1954, when the tags were first introduced by Jack Colpitts, the company's advertising manager and his wife. In the early '60s, the bags featured "instant fortunes" and Salada launched a massive media blitz under the ficticious premise that American Gypsies were boycotting the product. The campaign, let by Comedian Stan Freedberg and the mysterious Gypsy leader "Vladimir Krim," featured television ads depicting a Gypsy encampment on the ground of the company's Wobrun, MA headquarters. "It was a real laugh, "Bates recall. In the late '50s pilots on Eastern Airlines read their...
...such a mundane activity and plunge wrist-deep into the pages of the glossier catalogues, fantasizing over offerings that are dizzyingly expensive. This pleasant addiction, though, is harmless and may even be cheaper than going to see a movie in the shopping mall cinema. No lines, no waiting: instant extravaganzas of luxury...
newspapers or magazines. The latest news may even stem from someone's conversation, concern or argument. Somehow the word gets around. The amount of information and its quality vary, but the proliferation of instant news through electronic media has not only increased Americans' awareness...
...Arthur D. Little, which has been studying the problem, advocates the wider application of several safety methods now used on some grocery products. They include the tight plastic bands or shrink wraps that cover the cap and neck of some syrup and sauce bottles, vacuum seals like those on instant-coffee jars, and baby-food "pop tops" that bulge visibly once opened. The single most effective form of protection for drugs, according to the Little research, would be blister packages like those currently used for SmithKline's cold medicine Contac...
...that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more righteous villagers are all too willing to play judge and executioner. Adultery is punished by eight months of bread and water; indiscreet lovemaking demands instant and bloody death. In this remorseless landscape, where the subtlest smile on a stolid face can seem an act of anarchy, each prisoner must find fulfillment by pursuing his dark destiny...