Word: pepsis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Portents of a huge phenomenon are not found exclusively on sales graphs or balance sheets, however. When Jackson's hair was burned in an accident during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial in late January, the mishap made headline news around the world. Once completed, two Pepsi commercials featuring Jackson and his brothers premiered on MTV. The next day on their national morning news shows, CBS, ABC and NBC all aired one or both spots as hot stories, not paid...
...with the gold-plated gramophone eight times, a record record. Among other categories, he captured album of the year (Thriller), record of the year (Beat It) and best male pop vocal (Thriller). The sylphlike Prince of Pop even dominated the show's commercial breaks. His two eagerly awaited Pepsi-Cola ads made their debut during the 3½-hr. telecast. There was an unusual extra thrill for his tirelessly squealing fans when the soft-spoken superstar removed his dark glasses just once, explaining, "My friend Katharine Hepburn told me I should...
Michael Jackson's fiery mishap renews concerns about safety The elaborate $1.5 million commercial for Pepsi-Cola was being taped in front of 3,000 fans at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Four times Singer Michael Jackson glided down a staircase toward Jermaine and his three other brothers as a pyrotechnic display was set off behind them...
AILING. Michael Jackson, 25, top pop-record and video performer (Thriller); from second degree scalp and back burns after an exploding smokebomb canister ignited his hair during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial. A Los Angeles doctor who treated the singer said that he might need reconstructive surgery...
...voice of the sexual revolution, which began, at last overtly, in the 60s, but of the male rebellion, which had begun in the late 50s. The real message was not eroticism: but escape--literal escape, from the bondage of breadwinning...to male liberation...Sex's or Hefner's Pepsi-clean version of it--was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy. In every issue, every month, there was a Playmate to prove that a playboy didn't have to be a husband...