Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dressing women has long been the bag of Couturier Yves St. Laurent. Nobody knows better than he the way to a lady's checkbook. The way to a man's, though, seems to have been too much of a problem for the flame-haired designer. To plug his new line of male fragrances, St. Laurent simply took all his clothes off and collapsed in a full-page advertising spread in the French edition of Vogue. The Paris Couturiers' Association unofficially declared itself "astonished." Vogue admitted it was "a little surprised." Said Yves, "I wanted shock...
...annual sport-slaughter becomes, in effect, only a shaggy-bull story. Columbia execs must be worried: the film has, in general, been drubbed, and they've given it a big Boston build-up. They're also clever: the film cost a cheap $840,000 to make, and if they plug it hard enough, in today's crazy market...who knows...
...Plug for a Park. On occasion, W.W.F. members have used their prestige to help stem the destruction of endangered species. Charles Lindbergh singlehanded stopped the slaughter of the blue whale off Peru in 1966 by going directly to its President and persuading him to order a stay on the hunting of the species by all whalers. Prince Bernhard has pressured the heads of state of several countries to become more active conservationists. When he visited Ethiopia a few years ago, he sent advance notice that he wanted to visit a national park-knowing full well that none existed in Ethiopia...
Sargent made a rare appearance before the Social Welfare Committee to plug State Bill S-1601, which would lower the percentage of sentence a prisoner must serve before he becomes eligible for parole to one-third of his minimum sentence. Exceptions would be made in cases of murder or habitual violation...
...that President Nixon was really serious about fighting to retain Taiwan's seat; many of them cynically assumed that the U.S. would go through the motions of fighting for Taiwan, but would be just as glad to be defeated. Bush, who has personally visited nearly 50 delegations to plug for the American plan, has made the U.S. point clear enough. Whether the representatives will vote the American way is quite another, and highly uncertain matter...