Word: ugh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colossal put-on. When I was there, I was served New York-cut steak, Long Island duckling, Maryland turkey and Maine lobster. All the long-legged, blue-eyed California girls hailed from Kansas and Texas. I sampled native gefilte fish in the deli opposite the Clift and .-Ugh!-discovered it was made with saltwater fish. This is our future...
...Making money," he said calmly. "And I dig it." He was the first person I had met who had a sane attitude towards the whole scene. I certainly never would have admitted that I was interesting in making money, ugh...
...sometimes wonder what would have happened if there had been a Congressman Ugh way back then to ask of what value was fire, considering the problem of substandard caves. Thank heavens for those who asked way back why not instead of why, and for those who throughout history agreed with Norwegian Explorer Fridtjof Nansen that "it is ... of no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge-man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so he is no longer...
...surprised that you suggested no escape plan for the average CEBUS victim. Mine is workable, simple, and guaranteed to trim the waistline while liberating the mind from ugh-plugs. For women, the average battery of three commercials per station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief...
What can be done? Chances are that if everyone keeps his fingers crossed and buys the right products, the light-hearted uncommercials will spread and increasingly crowd the ugh-plugs off the air. But that is not enough. Another prospect is that the networks, goaded by viewer resentment, will move closer to the European scheme by having fewer but slightly longer commercial breaks. At present, with 9,000 new items appearing on the supermarket shelves each year, sponsors have started "clustering"-cramming more but shorter