Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not pay the expense accounts of a Madison Avenue agency, and its roster of clients is more in the category of "Who's That?" than Who's Who. Yet Public Interest Communications, a nine-month-old, nonprofit San Francisco ad agency, is making a satisfying unconventional splash in the business of mass persuasion. PIC has successfully put well-tested formulas for selling deodorants and detergents behind a wide range of controversial or overlooked causes that range from supporting drug-treatment centers in residential neighborhoods to saving whales from extinction...
...scrawled on buildings and walls from Norway to Sicily, sometimes in elaborate quotations but most often only in simple graffiti. "Viva Marx!" says a slogan scribbled on a building near the University of Barcelona. More than a thousand miles away on a gray stucco wall in West Berlin, a splash of whitewash exults: "Marx lebt [Marx lives...
Responding to mysterious sci-fi bleepings, a group of flower children led by David Haskell come together for a splash party in Central Park's Belvedere Fountain. There they find Christ: an androgyne wearing a Superman sweatshirt. Repairing to a junkyard, which handles only clean and cute junk, they outfit themselves as a band of strolling players devoted to acting out the Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles...
...however, there is only one really viable indicator which demarcates the boundary between winter and spring. When the college swimming season finally ends with a splash at the NCAAs, then I know the winter, and what a long one it was, is finally and irretrievably over. This means I can take out my baseball glove and proceed to throw...
...ideal world economy a nation should be able to set the value of its currency for at least reasonable lengths of time. But the present monetary system has been so battered over the years that for the time being there may be little alternative to the splish-splash world of floating...