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Word: movingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pierce Brosnan's James Bond-ish chase-on-top-of-a-moving-train for Diet Coke reportedly cost more than $1 million to film, and it was a disappointment. The commercial tries to cram too many tense moments into too few seconds. The viewer spends so much time trying to...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: ABC Wins Super Bowl | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

The ad is understated and endearing. Unlike Coke's moving train, the set is simple, the action comprehensible. Here Pepsi becomes the object of the escapade, not just an afterthought. As Fox climbs in and out of a car to avoid the obviously harmless canine and grab a drink, his...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: ABC Wins Super Bowl | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

.Hand-held people meters for the members to rate the moving speeches of their peers. The meters could double as electrical prods to help Council Chairman Evan J. Mandery '89 tame wild debates. Or they could serve as magnets, to compel delinquent members to attend meetings they are missing.

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Bureaucratic Excessories | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

Club Casablanca may be moving to make way for a pair of office developments and a shop-lined "Brattle Walk," if the developers can steer past a dilatory city agency, two state offices, and a group of neighborhood activists who have already extracted some concessions.

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Developers Must Compromise Over Brattle Square Project | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

With at least 6 million Ethiopians threatened with starvation for the second time in three years because of drought, Western food donations have once again begun pouring into the country. But much of this aid never reaches the hungry. Last week relief officials reported that 172 tons of food, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine: Hunger as A Weapon | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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