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Word: sprayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wonderama (Syndicated) is a 13-year-old, three-hour-long, Every Bloody Sunday party, encouraging kids to every capital sin except lust. An affable man offscreen, Host Bob McAllister manically encourages kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pies­last one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen gifts­and a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...that we, in touring a house (especially an old one rich in objects and detail), cannot avoid trying to read the significance of its design, cannot help looking for human messages in the house's forms and for human intentions in the creaking of a door. When Nero begins spray-painting the outlines of people's feet that walk across his canvasses-that is, begins making paintings that simply record or imprint human events-the point becomes still cleverer...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: More Bourgeois Films A Quiet Place in the Country and Leo the Last premiering at the Central Square Cinema | 11/12/1970 | See Source »

...supposed to make some difference to the viewer that the lady plumber has been on vacation and has returned to be embarrassed by yet another stained kitchen sink. Dentyne's "no-hum mouth" marks a new low in tasteless breath commercials, and the feminine hygiene spray ads tell more than anyone could want to know about Dorothy Provine and Jill Haworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reviewing the Commercials | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Whose Orders? In theory, permission to spray defoliants in a given area is granted by General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, and by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. In practice, orders for individual defoliation missions are given on a much lower level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Agent Orange Affair | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...Agent Blue, whose use has not been suspended, is a solution of cacodylic acid containing 54% arsenic. In Viet Nam, where it sometimes gets into drinking water, Blue spray is used to kill rice and garden crops at a much greater strength than is considered safe for killing weeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Agent Orange Affair | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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