Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came protests against Joe Camel, a raffish advertising character that has attracted teenagers to Camel cigarettes. Now furious grownups are opening new fronts in the wars for dollars and youthful minds. Incensed by plans for a Fox network cartoon series that would star Chester Cheetah, a pitchman for Frito-Lay's Chee-tos snacks, Action for Children's Television and six other groups last week asked the FCC to bar the program. While Fox said it will not show spots for Chee-tos during the series, ACT said the program itself would amount to a commercial and would violate...
RISING SUN by Michael Crichton (Knopf; $22). Japan-bashing has never been more exquisitely calibrated for best-sellerdom. There is a whodunit at the heart of this commercial thriller, but the identity of the bad guys is never in any doubt. Lay out some plastic for this novel before publishers' row becomes a subsidiary of Sony...
Once our eyes adjusted to the gloomy glow, we realized there were only two options--drinking in the Lobby Lounge, or walking right into Syatt's party, which lay in a kind of ominous purple darkness beyond the lounge...
...fitting that her final points were off a nifty lay-up coming after slicing through the lane. That's what Healy has done each time out for the past four years...
Call him a low-profile Pat Buchanan--someone who is running in this campaign in order to lay the groundwork for a conservative run at the presidency in 1996. Phillips' hope is to use the "microphone of the presidential campaign to change the current party...