Word: tempts
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...music is not customary hit material. It is a little too odd and altogether too witchy for these flighty, dance-heavy times. But a first hearing of Sinead O'Connor might tempt anyone to believe that, for the moment, lite...
Other forms of marketing are taking flak as well. In his second antismoking salvo of the week, Sullivan denounced tobacco sponsorship of sporting events, notably Virginia Slims tennis tournaments, for using "the prestige and the image of the athlete" to tempt young people to light up. Mark Green's first official act as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs was to fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt...
...verbal nutcracker. "This," he adds, "has meant commercial embarrassment to me." Tokyo Rose is only his fifth album since Song Cycle so, clearly, Parks is not likely to give Billy Joel a run for the heavy money; but the album is both witty and topical enough to tempt the wide audience that has so far eluded...
...wall if insured for less. Even there, the problem is compounded by the auction houses: when consulted on insurance values or by the IRS, they tend to stick the maximum imaginable price on a painting to maintain the image of its market value and tempt the owner to sell...
...with style and grace. Jack and Frank play the bickering brothers to a tee, and they even manage to get into a not-half-bad food fight in their hotel room. (They call a cease-fire when Jack picks up a whole pineapple and warns his brother, "Don't tempt me." Talk about deterrance...