Word: quiverers
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...wildest fantasies. Four-color, full-page advertisements for one such item have been appearing in Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and other publications. An unclothed, deadpan model looks out from under the slyly provocative headline: "Relax. And Enjoy the Revolution." The product is Cupid's Quiver, a $3.50 package of twelve sachets of liquid douche concentrate that is offered in two floral scents (orange blossom and jasmine), as well as two flavor scents (raspberry and champagne). The ads were created by Marsteller Inc., a relatively sober agency that includes among its accounts IBM, Dannon Yogurt and Fruit...
Cupid's Quiver is sold in pastel packaging from cosmetics counters instead of drug shelves. It was introduced nationally in August, and sales in the first two months climbed to $250,000-a total that would please any marketer of a new drug or cosmetic. It has had little trouble moving into better-known stores, including San Francisco's I. Magnin, Washington's Woodward & Lothrop and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus. Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier declined to advertise the product publicly but included 75,000 brochures for the item in the monthly statements that it mails...
...Began Underground. The product's prospects were further heightened last month when Tawn Limited, a subsidiary of McKesson Laboratories, the giant drug wholesaler, bought the production and distribution rights. Until then, Cupid's Quiver was produced by Joseph Laboratories in Los Angeles, a tiny, one-product firm formed this year by Hylton Socher, a public relations man, and Harvey Meyerhoff, a graphics designer. They had acquired the product from Michael Intrator, a musician, who had developed it. For a time, he sold Cupid's Quiver through ads in the Los Angeles Free Press and other underground newspapers...
...just saw the new issue of Cosmopolitan. For those of us who still don't feel clean enough, there is a new product on the market-a mod douche. Called "Cupid's Quiver," these "pre-measured sachets of liquid concentrate" come in four flavors: Orange Blossom, Raspherry, Jasmine and Champagne. "Relax," the ad commands. "And enjoy the revolution...
...tube, can you believe, singing in a torrent of sweat in a black leather suit--no, wait, it's a high-roll collar dealie, and can you dig his pants? Heartbreak Hotel? Raunchy as ever? Hound Dog? It's too good to be true! That quiver that makes girls moan from their stomachs made me shriek at the top of my lungs: "Elvis, Elvis, you son of a bitch, you are the KING...