Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood and Madison Avenue press agents have long schemed to have their products used as conspicuous props in films. The payola for the plugola usually goes to accommodating producers or property...
...carefully planned. Last February three building owners on upper Madison Avenue realized that their sidewalk was crumbling and had to be replaced. Since all three buildings housed art galleries, one owner suggested that the new sidewalk "ought to be interesting." His neighbor, Art Dealer Klaus Perls, replied: "Maybe I can persuade Alexander Calder to design it for us." The celebrated sculptor was delighted. "We will do Rio one better," he said, and charged no fee for his services. By May, Calder's sketch of a series of vivid geometrical shapes (including his initials) was translated into engineering drawings. Then...
...example, in order to feed its own economic gain, Madison Avenue has sought "to maximize sexual stimulation and minimize sexual availability," so that an infinite supply of consumer products can be inserted in the resulting gap. The basis for this assumption is flimsy at best. He offers no evidence. The direction of his prose attempts to push us along, quietly nodding, into the next gaggle of generalizations...
...elimination of dual school systems has reduced the number of teaching and supervisory positions, costing many black educators their jobs or senior status. Columbia and Madison County, Miss., summarily fired 24 black teachers at the end of the last school year; Greenville reshuffled 21 athletic coaches when it desegregated its system. One black teacher in Pearl, Miss., who is trained in English and Spanish has been assigned to teach home economics in a newly unified system. Unequipped for the job, she expects to be fired for incompetence...
...Weatherman faction of the splintered S.D.S. was involved in the Wisconsin bombing and has had a hand in most of the 150 major bomb and arson attacks in the U.S. in the past year. "It's going to get worse," Assistant FBI Director Charles Brennan predicted after the Madison explosion...