Word: singed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...golf sixth at Yale Sing Invitational...
...course, before the age when advertising began to hinge on what kind of person you would be if you used the product. You remember from the '60s those giddily idealistic United Nations-style Coca Cola ads, with 100 different races of people drinking frosty bottles of Coke and singing "I'd like to Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony." Looking up from' Mission Impossible,' you felt that the next time you slugged down a pop, you would be joining hands with the oppressed people of the world...
Think of Middle America Didn't you always suspect some buy depot types who asked for a dollar really could offer you change for your twenty? Who hasn't met the nice suburban couple with their laughing gas-like smiles who sing showtunes as they drive down the highway in their sky-blue station wagons? It sounds like stereotyping, as might befit a director first made famous as Archie Bunker's "Meathead" son-in-law, but this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like...
...Zilliax has at least as good a range. She plays the shy governess, the repressed housewife, and the bold prostitute all with equal believability and skill. If acting were singing, she could sing five octaves of pure tones...
...shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish sheepdog and two cockatoos." One of her schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work but I'd get paid just the same . . . I'd also like to have lots of different things, dresses for every day of the week, to have...