Word: tout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Tanner Emery Huvos, "then we're licked. The prestige will get them the volume market, and that's what they're looking for." To try to prevent that, Leather Industries of America has doubled this year's advertising budget to $2,000,000 to tout the virtue of good old-fashioned leather...
...ailment: anemia on the football field. Feeding on heftier bankrolls, the big-city teams-the New York Giants. Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland Browns. Detroit Lions-ruled the league. Starting in 1948. the small-town Packers went eleven years without a winning season. In 1958. they won only one game Tout of twelve). Things got so bad that Green Bay youngsters tore up their autograph books and Packer coaches wisely left their telephones off the hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare of the Rams, "is the best place in the world...
Although only one of his full-length features (Rocco and his Brothers) has circulated widely in this country, far-flung and knowing correspondents tout him as Europe's most meticulous director in any medium. Those of us who couldn't make it to Salerno this summer for the shooting of the Leopard are now bombarded by the glossy monthlies with awe-struck accounts of Visconti's baroque sense of light and composition or his deft flair for leading actors like Burt Lancaster into deep and exacting performances. On the evidence of Rocco and that turgid domestic squabble in Boccaccio...
...time to enrich, the sometimes exaggerated starkness of bare walls in contemporary architecture.'' Lurgat is currently working on a series of tapestries called Le Chant du Monde, mostly representing such contemporary horrors as La Grande Menace (fallout), Le Grand Charmer (worldwide charnel house) and La Fin de Tout (final destruction). Other sections of Lurgat's monumental looming have more pleasant themes: fishing, wine, the conquest of space, hunting and poetry...
...Tout." His own voice, when in use, is faintly Flatbush-full of lines like "I sen tout for coffee" and "I had a friend of mine who . . ." The fourth child of a New York lawyer, he had been an actor, magician, mentalist and hypnotist when he tried his first commercial-as a talking flashlight battery-eight years ago. Soon, for another commercial that was used repeatedly, he got $1,700 instead of the $45 he had expected. He called the agency to see if there had been a mistake and, when told that there had not been, decided to enter...