Word: shampooing
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...pervades the house, the town and herself. Her grandfather, the vice-ridden vicar, is an alcoholic adulterer who even has an affair with his daughter’s best friend. Emphasizing the dirt, both literal and figurative, Sage is plagued by lice. Her family refuses to buy the medicated shampoo necessary for killing the bugs in a futile attempt to save face. Scandal constantly enshrouds the house...
...Fifteen minutes later, facing an unknown future with just a pink plastic basket holding a few clothes and a bottle of shampoo, Lek starts to cry. Suddenly sensing a need to do everything properly, she runs into the bar, kneels in front of Mama San and begins to bow and chant, a good Buddhist girl in smudged makeup giving thanks for her freedom. Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication. She isn't worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...
...jump from job to job. Then when the economy cooled, long before Sept. 11, the first response of many managers was to shed lots of employees. Little wonder that the average 32-year-old today has worked for nine companies. And she has probably bought nine brands of shampoo from a dozen drugstores, supermarkets and websites. For many customers, loyalty to a product or retailer seems quaint in an era when buying decisions are made at the click of a mouse...
...would be easy - too easy - to make light of Charlotte Beers, the former big-time advertising exec recently named undersecretary of state for public affairs. The so-called "queen of branding" who helped promote Head & Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's Rice has now been assigned the job of helping to boost the U.S. image in the Muslim world. So, no Uncle Ben's jokes, please...
...most bizarre media moment of the week was not Washington's tapping as its propaganda chief an advertising executive famous for selling Head and Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's rice. No, that distinction would surely go to reports that Chilean businessman Eduardo Mateluna plans to launch a line of soaps and air fresheners called, simply, "Osama." Explained Mateluna, who has previously marketed wines named after General Augusto Pinochet, "It's a name that people already know...