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...nature of life on Madison Avenue: it is a combination of Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
...future that their school-aged kids learn terms like "crazy" and "way out" in their ancient-history courses. The Jetsons have a robot maid, a sort of Hazel with gears. Father comes home from work and says he has had a hard day at the button. Little Elroy asks his mother to tell him the story about the cow that degravitated over the moon. The show is silly and unpretentious, corny and clever, now and then quite funny...
...Comedian Gleason has his way-and he apparently had his way with John Patrick's script and Gene Kelly's direction-movie houses will have to supply their ushers with rowboats. Fortunately, though, the sniffles are frequently punctuated with snickers, and now and then with a button-popping belly laugh. Gleason has a gift of mimicry that verges on genius, and there are moments in this movie when the thin man struggling to get out of the fat man seems to be Charlie Chaplin...
...Coop offers its drenched customers two models: the $3.98 version is a push-it-up-yourself model, and is recommended especially for those with athletic pretensions. The more popular $5.00 model requires only that the carrier exert enough energy to push a "release button." whereupon the umbrella flies open with astonishing rapidity, somewhat endangering the owner, umbrella, and by-standers...
...many of them are not psychologists. They rely on supposedly cheatproof tests, asking their subjects to complete sly sentences ("My greatest fear . . ." "What pains me . . ."), flashing Rorschach inkblots, or as in the sample above, asking the testee to draw figures. Author Gross includes a key for scoring figures. A button nose on a drawing is an indication that the artist is immature; limply hanging arms show a Hamlet-like personality (very bad); buttons drawn on clothes reveal inadequacy and dependency; if the female figure is clothed or flat-chested, the artist is sexually disturbed (but it is normal...