Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1971, but tobacco companies are finding new ways to get their names on the screen. Last week consumer-products giant Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker, for the first time broadcast commercials designed to boost its corporate image. The ad, a tribute to the Bill of Rights, makes no overt reference to smoking. Even so, the Philip Morris name is almost synonymous with cigarettes, which bring in about 65% of the company's total profits...
...crying, and my parents would just sit me in front of the TV to watch hockey," Weisbrod remembers. "It was the only way they could get me to shut...
VIDEO: Eeek! TV unlocks a vault of horrors...
...TV, the addicts are usually poor blacks and Hispanics from the ghetto. In real life, the problem is much broader, engulfing large numbers of professionals who smoke crack...
...Left Foot, Brown's autobiography about his hard-won emergence as a painter and author, could be meat for good drama or the sap in a TV-movie treacle pudding. This Irish film is mostly meat. Knowing that the audience will embrace Christy, the filmmakers are free to make him as stubborn as he is courageous. For Christy everything begins with will: the will to be understood, to do well things he would not be thought able to do at all and, later, to be loved by the pretty doctor who would only admire and inspire...