Word: sloganeer
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...When you're out of Butz, you're out of guts!" runs the slogan. To illustrate, we are whisked to one of those boisterous prole bars where every guy in the joint clutches a foaming mug or frosted bottle. Shapiro carries the scene to its ruthlessly realistic and quite hilarious conclusion. One guy, who seems to be just easing out of a day driving the No. 4 bus, decks a well-groomed type in a flowered shirt. The whole bar erupts, the virtues of malt and macho are duly celebrated, and the place looks like Pork Chop Hill...
...several years now Americans have been hearing a somber new slogan: "Death with dignity." Meaning: the American way of death has become too technological, often condemning a patient to a lingering and painful end in which he is kept artificially alive by a maze of tubes and life-support machines. To prevent such dehumanizing procedures, the advocates of death with dignity recommend that doctors be allowed to cease extraordinary lifesaving efforts when it is clear that the patient is beyond further help. The living are counseled to ease the dying person's final agony by keeping him company during...
...Kass, like Ramsey, is worried about euthanasia sloganeering that might mask "our prejudices against the old and 'useless' and, in some cases, our simply crass and selfish interests." Like Ramsey, he questions the slogan's implication that "dignity will reign if only we can push back officious doctors, machinery and hospital administrators." Indeed, reflects Kass, "a death with dignity may turn out to be something rare and uncommon, like a life with dignity...
...that of Solzhenitsyn himself, a prisoner for eight years in the gigantic "archipelago" of Stalinist labor camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. Between 1918 and 1959, Solzhenitsyn believes, 66 million men, women and children were shuttled to these islands of slavery under the pious official slogan "Correction through labor." In fact, Solzhenitsyn charges, it amounted to "extermination through labor...
Since National Airlines took off with its "I'm Cheryl. Fly me" campaign in 1971, the sexy-and sexist-slogan has enraged feminists. It has also pulled in business. National reported a 23% increase in passengers during the first year of the campaign, nearly twice that of the industry as a whole. Having succeeded that well with sex. National is now drumming up an even more suggestive campaign scheduled for television airing this summer. The new ads feature National stewardesses looking seductively into the camera and breathing "I'm going to fly you like you've never...