Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ralph: Right, dearest. So doubtless we shall soon see Margaret Thatcher flogging Dr Pepper, and Queen Elizabeth in her royal quarters having an argument with Prince Philip over Mountain Dew. Maybe we can get Sandra Day O'Connor to push Gatorade. And how about Mother Teresa for Perrier? She could talk to us about choices for the poor...
...Ralph: Old stuff, Wanda. Public figures, particularly politicians, are not supposed to endorse products, and for the past 30 years or so they haven't, though they are sometimes freely purchased in other ways...
...Ralph: Nolo contendere, my polemical one. He shouldn't have done it, but he's on the board of Gannett, which owns the newspaper, and he wasn't paid...
...Ralph: Reagan was an entertainer when he sold us all those products, Wanda. If Gerry were an actress, a tennis star or a famous guitar banger, no one would mind if she put her prestige behind miracle toilet-bowl cleaners and remedies for the heartbreak of psoriasis--at least if she dropped all the piety about women's choices and just rolled up her sleeves and sold the stuff...
Wanda: So Ferraro is the only one who's wrong, is that it, Ralph? You don't suppose this whole flap is being blown out of proportion to keep her from running for the Senate...