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...issue are not just the design, graphics and colors of the boxes but also the letters PM (for postmeridian, or afternoon). At stake is the fast-growing pain-killer-cum-sleep-aid segment of the $2.5 billion analgesic market. J & J maintains that its package prominently features the Tylenol name and that it had no intention of confusing consumers. The pills inside both bottles are sky blue and are available coated so that, unlike all the ongoing litigation, they're easy to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pharmaceuticals: Hard to Swallow | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Jazz NOW'S THE TIME! (RCA Victor). After years spent stubbornly exploring the back roads of modern jazz, Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins knows his way unerringly around the territory. He goes off like a firecracker in Miles Davis' Four, takes a postmeridian jaunt in John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris, nods to Charlie Parker in his dry-eyed blues Now's the Time, makes Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight sound fathoms deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 5, 1965 | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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