Word: lincolnitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, Bloomingdale's has already sold 70 of 100 ad pages in twelve upcoming issues to such brands as Haagen-Dazs, Lincoln Continental and Bolla sparkling wine. The concept will have to bubble along for a while, though, before the corks will pop on Madison Avenue...
...impact of Hispanics on the larger culture is growing imperceptibly. The most noticeable change is culinary. In Chicago, for example, the Yellow Pages list 36 Latin restaurants, one with the hybrid name of Guadalaharry's; some have appeared in the fashionable Lincoln Park and Old Town areas. In the Long Island suburbs of New York City, packaged taco mixes are appearing in many supermarkets whose customers are nearly all Anglo...
...good fortune. The audience made the filmmakers rich and famous; in return, movie people taught moviegoers, in the U.S. and all over the world, how to be Americans. When Film Maestro Federico Fellini was in New York City last month to receive tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he recalled the spell American movies cast over his provincial Italian boyhood in the 1920s: "I saw that there existed another way of life, a land of wide open spaces and fantastic cities that were a cross between Babylon and Mars. It was especially wonderful to know there...
DeSisto, in contrast, was earnest and amiable, beginning his summation with a windy anecdote about Abraham Lincoln. Instead of reviewing his case, he painted an emotional and highly colored tableau of the alleged murder attempts. With his hands resting on the front of the jury box, DeSisto pleaded with the jurors to try to relive the crime, to put themselves in the room where Sunny von Bulow went into her two comas. As if holding a syringe in his hand, DeSisto asked, "Can you see it? As he was pushing the plunger down, can you see it? The defendant then...
...marched into the history books last week to become another chapter in the arcane world of staffing and running the presidency. Meese, Baker, Deaver, sounding -- and often acting -- like an infield in the American League, now will be part of the lore that includes Nicolay and Hay, who served Lincoln, Colonel House, who advised Wilson, Kennedy's Irish Mafia and the infamous Berlin Wall, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon's unfortunate duo who ended up in jail...