Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This guy from HSA came in and announced that condoms were being sold in the Union and asked us to spread the word in our dorms," James B. Witkin '75, a council member, said. "Most of the guys were surprised, but seemed to approve of it, especially since he said they were selling them cheaper than the drug stores were...
...lady's checkbook. The way to a man's, though, seems to have been too much of a problem for the flame-haired designer. To plug his new line of male fragrances, St. Laurent simply took all his clothes off and collapsed in a full-page advertising spread in the French edition of Vogue. The Paris Couturiers' Association unofficially declared itself "astonished." Vogue admitted it was "a little surprised." Said Yves, "I wanted shock. But you'll notice I have a halo to give a biblical look...
Caravaggio's sense of theater furnished a host of imitators with a fresh vocabulary. The Caravaggisti were not a closely knit group or even a specially gifted one-though they included some painters of undeniable power, like Orazio Gentileschi. They assiduously imitated Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The manner spread to France and The Netherlands. Georges de La Tour's candlelit night pieces, for instance, sprang from it, and Hendrick Terbrugghen used it with distinction. But his influence stimulated no great painters in Rome, for, by then, there were none left to stimulate. The grand vindication came later, when...
Austrian-born Friedrich Jahn is Europe's answer to Howard Johnson, or maybe Colonel Sanders. Through his chicken-lickin' Wienerwald restaurants, which have spread across Europe and into the U.S., he works to satisfy a hungry middle class. The chain grossed $115 million last year and should do at least 10% better this year. Last month Jahn opened new outposts in Vienna and Nuremberg; he plans others in Scandinavia, Britain and South Africa. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if one day there is a Wienerwald in Nigeria or Kenya...
...questions Kramer fielded were mostly lickspittle stuff. (For the affair was not, it turned out, a bona fide press conference--the Crimson people were the only critics present--self-styled or otherwise.) It was one of the studio-sponsored get-togethers meant to spread word-of-mouth in big college areas. The questioners sounded like job-seekers; as I walked in, a young gentleman kneeling on the floor (there were some scattered chairs) asked: "How do you sell your films?" And Kramer replied that he had a treatment ready whenever he had a saleable package; that he'd recreate...