Word: 1950s
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...cheery 1950s-themed brunch in Currier House, complete with root beer floats, foot-long hot dogs, and a jukebox blasting “Johnny B. Goode” suddenly turned grim when the slideshow projecting vintage posters onto the dining hall wall flashed a questionable promo for Persil Detergent. “For Coloureds too!” the ad boasted, explaining in small print that it was actually, honestly, just talking about colored clothing...
...centric mainstream marketing, the same way hip-hop, urban culture has pervaded the general ad market in the past decade. Crest, P&G?s flagship toothpaste, has just named 5-year-old Cuban-born girl Enya Martinez its new ?Crest Kid,? the all-American advertising icon represented in the 1950s by kids drawn by Norman Rockwell. "For anyone under 30," says Gary Bassell, head of the Bravo Group, a Hispanic agency, "it ain't cool to be white anymore." Which makes it all the more important for advertisers to figure out what kinds of branding will work-and which will...
Inspired by the finest 1950s junk fiction--Mickey Spillane's gun-crazy P.I. Mike Hammer and Al Feldstein's EC SuspenStories comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen...
DIED. SY WEXLER, 88, award-winning producer whose 16-mm, 10- to 30-minute-long educational films--with such sizzle-free titles as Teeth Are for Life, Why Physical Education and Venereal Disease: Why Do We Still Have It?--were a staple of baby boomers' classrooms in the 1950s and '60s; in Studio City, Calif...
...written by a white, Western male, which means, in this kind of shorthand, there must be something wrong with it. One knows that the charge of sexism exists, and if you're called a sexist, it's a kind of crime. It's like the old days in the 1950s, when people had to be careful about things that very powerful critics could call Communist. Or, in earlier days, atheist. The universities, not wishing to be separated from the sense of injustice done to women and blacks, are simply giving way and largely accepting such arguments...