Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the leaders of the trade, including Maxwell Dane of Doyle Dane Bernbach Inc. Last week UNSELL began displaying its antiwar campaign: 125 posters, 33 TV commercials and 31 radio spots, all of them pitched to political moderates and free of radical vitriol. In one TV ad, a pie is cut at a dinner table, and a black man, an old lady and a hardhat receive small slivers served up by Uncle Sam. A military man in gaudy uniform gets three-quarters of the pie, which he gulps down noisily. If radio and TV stations decline...
...whether or not the frustrations will boil into violence undoubtedly lies with the young blacks. Says Boston's A. Reginald Eaves, head of the mayor's human rights office: "When the black kids find they can't get a piece of the pie, they're going to get a piece of the action. That means trouble." As Americans learned during the riots of the 1960s, however, ghetto violence explodes by a wholly unpredictable chemistry. The arrest of a cab driver was enough to trigger the 1967 riot in Newark. In New York last week, four policemen...
...sitting in the beer garden or discussing football at the men-only "scrum bar." Upstairs, 600 men and women were drinking beer at long tables while they listened to a stand-up comic; near by, a self-service restaurant was turning out $2.25 dinners of shrimp, steak and pie. Members who were not exhausted from a day at the beach or sports could swim in the 50-meter pool, enjoy a sauna, or play pool, darts or table tennis. The architecture is brash, the décor early TWA, the tone matey and the turnover tremendous. The income from...
They are good men, in the apple-pie tradition, maybe good to the point of boredom, but that is in the eye of the beholders. They are men of uncommon decency and devotion, but none has lighted a real fire. Whether any of them would make a good President is still a question for most Americans...
...doesn't muster up a single rational argument. Not one. Now, slogans and stickers from PL may not be the most genteel approach to the question of war crimes. Style, however, isn't all that relevant-and after all, aren't bad manners and unsubtlety as American as cherry pie? So are slogans, and the answer from the 29 professors contains nothing more than certain predictable slogans of their...