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...City, asked regarding a perfume pitch on one page, "That's not an ad, is it?" It was, and some agencies are skeptical of the trend. Says Advertising Executive Katie Muldoon: "It's confusing, and we wouldn't recommend it to our clients." But contends Agency Head Jo-Von Tucker: "The more prestigious the store the higher the possibility for success...
...Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice a wound...
...council acted only after the supreme court of Transvaal province ordered it to look into Biko's death. Although it could have permanently barred both men from practicing medicine, the council merely barred Tucker for three months and suspended the sentence. Lang was dismissed with a reprimand...
...Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica beat him with a Sophie Tucker impersonation...
...sugary Amos flips his tricorner for Alice, but Mandy and the sadistic Mayor are out for witchflesh. Mandy, together with goodtime-guys Pastor Pryme (Tucker McCrady) and Judge Mental (Ron Duvernay), wants the witches for a traditional roast, but the Mayor has them in mind as potential subjects for "medical experiments." (This persistent line, even more egregious when pronounced in a German accent, is the one real misstep in a script which otherwise admirably achieves humor while sidestepping the truly tasteless.) Rounding out the posse is the simpering Mona Lott (Brad Daley), who has been carefully coached to shudder incontrollably...