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...course, today's highly sophisticated TV commercials evolved from fairly humble origins. The first TV spot in Britain, a commercial for Gibbs SR toothpaste, aired 51 years ago during a variety show. It featured a tube of Gibbs in a block of ice. As a woman brushed her teeth, an announcer exclaimed: "It's tingling fresh. It's fresh as ice. It's Gibbs SR toothpaste." Not exactly scintillating TV. But give ad execs of the '50s a break. They were just starting to grapple with a nascent but potentially powerful medium - one they eventually tamed through trial and error...
...Colbert's White House Correspondents' Association monologue, it had a smaller target: the person who was elected in 2000, not the one who actually sits in the office. It's that twist of history that made the skit so satisfying to liberals, myself among them, who have gnashed their teeth through six long years in George W. Bush's Washington. But the satisfaction one might draw from even a playful vision of an imaginary Gore administration points up the other limitation of an actual Gore 2008 campaign: its appeal rests in a nostalgia for an era that never...
...Some people don’t know what to do when I smile at them,” Kerr adds. And although some may think the University campus is not exactly a hotbed of criminal activity, according to Catalano there is enough action for officers to sink their teeth into.—Staff writer Noah S. Bloom can be reached at nsbloom@fas.harvard.edu...
...Besides being adept at squeezing themselves through miniscule cracks in the wall and pipes, mice have razor-sharp teeth...
...Penn or New Hampshire, he nonetheless flew out to cheer on Hughes and Adjah at the Relays. “I haven’t decided yet if I’m competing in Heps,” Laine said. “I might have to grit my teeth and bear a little pain. As usual, we don’t have the numbers most teams have—Cornell has three to four times as many members. And Heps is the culmination of the outdoor season.” Heptagonals will take place in Philadelphia next Saturday...