Word: mouthwash
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With the killer or killers still on the loose and copycat poisonings continuing-a bottle of mouthwash laced with sulfuric acid was bought in an Oak Park, Ill., store-officials were increasingly concerned. One special worry: adulteration of Halloween trick-or-treat favors. In Chicago, Mayor Jane Byrne ordered distribution of a million leaflets urging parents to keep a close eye on whom their children visit and what they bring home...
What Harvard fans need after this season is a good, long gargle with some minty mouthwash...
...July Hurt set up a meeting attended by the three sponsoring companies. Warner-Lambert, which was advertising Listerine mouthwash and Dentyne chewing gum, withdrew from Dallas, Charlie's Angels, Soap and Saturday Night Live. A company spokesman said that the change was due to "marketing considerations" and, in the case of Saturday Night Live, to the fact that the company could not prescreen a live program. Hurt then removed Warner-Lambert, the eighth largest television advertiser, with billings of $60 million in 1979, from the boycott list...
...over the popularity of these waters: the nonalcoholic beverage, he argues, is sounding the last clunk of the ice cube for that most American of social events, the cocktail party. Baker dryly predicts worse to come. "Next year perhaps we will see rooms filled with people holding glasses of mouthwash." Before America reaches for a Listerine-and-lime, however, Boston TV Pundit Charles Kramer predicts, the nation will be buying up a more logical successor to bottled H2O-simply O: "a line of gourmet air, available only in exclusive shops at a formidable price...
...leaves a vivid comic impression. What makes Pacino dreadfully wrong for the role enhances what is prickingly funny about the way he plays it. In social mobility, this young (39) actor has come a long way upward from The Bronx, but no one has been able to mouthwash The Bronx from his speech patterns. From moment to moment, his urban streetside inflection breaks up the house, deliberately. Pacino has insufficient breath control to carry a Shakespearean line, so he spits out the poetry and mars the imagery. He strikes just two vocal chords: one, the brawling ranter, the other...