Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grounds that their lavish ad campaigns enabled them to keep out competitors and inflate prices. Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods and Quaker Oats were also accused by the agency of falsely advertising their products as body builders and aids to weight control. The case, which represents a new twist in antitrust enforcement, will almost certainly wind up in a long court battle. It raises a worrisome specter for all corporations that lean heavily on advertising for sales. The FTC is now considering hitting gasoline companies with a similar proposal...
Like Flip Wilson, Geraldine represents a fresh twist on traditional themes. The name is borrowed from a childhood crush of Flip's, a little girl in the grimy ghetto streets of Jersey City. The personality owes something to Sapphire, the endearingly bossy housewife on the Amos 'n' Andy radio show of the 1930s and '40s. The voice is derived from the Delta screech of Butterfly McQueen, the eye-rolling, stereotyped black maid in Gone With the Wind, and of so many other Hollywood oldies. What is different and up-to-date about Geraldine, says Flip...
...Xeroxed the manuscript: if Irving so much as went to the men's room while showing the book to publishers, Hughes said, his hosts would Xerox 200 pages "before he got his fly zipped up." Of his own interviews, Hughes said: "I don't want you to twist any of this-this is Howard Hoghes, warts and all. That's the way I want the world...
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...What great American poet had a Top Forty hit singing "(You Ought to See) Oliver Twist...