Word: sexier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Advertisers argue that the main reason ads are sexier these days can easily be determined by twirling a television dial, dropping by a local movie theater or checking the sales of X-rated video cassettes. Explains Roy Grace, vice chairman of the Doyle Dane Bernbach Group: "As a society, we're becoming more accepting of overt sexuality." In an era that has seen steamy prime-time soaps like Dallas and Dynasty become popular hits, and that nonchalantly accepts frank discussions of incest and bisexuality on Phil Donahue's show, erotic ads merely reflect the tone of the times. Says John...
...analyzing her results, Landers gave her usual cross between philosophy and sermon. "This says something very unflattering about men in this country," she said. "It says men are selfish. They want theirs." Yet she was quick to distribute the blame. "Some women need the message: loosen up, be sexier." Above all, Landers cited the so-called sexual revolution as the root of many of the problems. "Women are anxious," she said. "They're reading in Cosmopolitan that if they don't have five orgasms a night they're undersexed or freaks...
...rhythm, or bend just a single note to startlingly expressive purpose; he sings the first word of Just One of Those Things with a momentarily indeterminate pitch that colors the entire song with tantalizing emotional ambiguity. As evoked by Sinatra on I Love Paris, the city has never been sexier than "in the summer, when it sssizzles...
...look like standard Fruit of the Looms at first glance. Although they have more feminine lines and come in black and pink as well as white, the boxers retain the essential feature of masculine design: a fly. Klein had considered omitting the detail, but, says he: "It's sexier with the fly. These things are seriously thought...
...were only sexier, it might have rated recognition as the world's oldest profession. Ever since humankind became literate, civilization has been bedeviled by the forger's determination to deceive by mimicking the writing of others. When a pharaoh first fashioned a seal to protect the identity of his scribblings, a forger lurked with intent to melt, alter and reseal. Around the 5th century B.C. the Athenian poet Onomakritos was expelled from that ancient city for tampering with the oracles of Musaeus. His crime, unlike those of most forgers, had an unintended benefit. Thereafter, whenever a prophecy failed to materialize...