Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...
...making wisecracks about the single life in New York City. Typical bit: Rachel charts the differences between a guy she dated named David Sims and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Has fancy cigarette holder. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Tried to pack the Supreme Court. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Talks nonstop about himself. F.D.R.: no. Sims...
That, of course, could be the problem: too much comedy clutter. HA!, at least in its early stages, looks like yet another warehouse for comedy shows, old and new, available in ample supply elsewhere. The Comedy Channel, with its all-clip format, could wind up looking like nonstop previews of coming attractions. (Like MTV, the Comedy Channel is acquiring most of its clips free, since producers assume they will help the movies and videos from which they are excerpted.) Not to mention the indignity of seeing classic films and TV shows strip-mined for their "funny" parts. Oh, well; comedy...
Workers, however, find little time to actually sit down and read the tantalizing reams of pages that flow through the store. Both owners have labored virtually nonstop to get the new location up and running...
...chief pilot, Jacques Delors. It was the shrewd but sometimes prickly Frenchman, shortly after he became the European Commission's President in 1985, who selected 1992 as the target date for eliminating trade barriers among the Community's twelve members. And it was Delors, 64, who conducted a nonstop p.r. campaign on behalf of the plan. His efforts have earned him the nickname "Mr. Europe" and comparisons to the late Jean Monnet, his fellow Frenchman and the architect of the postwar European movement...