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...Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended to the soul...
...bisects his face seems to infiltrate the meaning and scope of the entire scene: the faces in the crowd appear distinctly conspiratorial; the girl has been debased into a symbol, and is happily oblivious to what that symbol embodies or supports; and even inanimate objects and trivial details--the sheen of the car and the incomplete lettering of a storefront in the background--possess an enlarged, fictive meaning, a circuit of tension and a certain chill suggestive of all that is sinister, ridiculous and mesmerizing about displays of institutionalized eroticism...
...Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members and molded them into a unit renowned for its tonal sheen and bravura. As he has said: "The Philadelphia sound...
Though competitors quickly copied his formula, Johnson Products continued to dominate the sales of all hair relaxers, substances that straighten curly hair. But in 1975 the Federal Trade Commission required the company to warn consumers that Ultra Sheen contained lye, which could burn the scalp and cause eye damage. Johnson claims that FTC officials assured him at the time that the other straighteners would also have to print a warning about lye on their packages. Yet for almost two years, while Ultra Sheen's label carried the notice, competitors like Revlon continued to market their "safe," "gentle" and "natural...
...company's most promising new prospect, though, is the lucrative African market. In Nigeria, Ultra Sheen has become the generic name for all hair-conditioning products. In a joint venture with the Nigerian government, Johnson last month opened a $2 million manufacturing plant in Lagos. He optimistically predicts that the Nigerian factory will clear the way to the sale of a whole range of black health and beauty products in Africa and a return to the company's high road to profits...