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This movie tie-in all but fell into the lap of Hershey, which sold some $35 million worth of Reese's Pieces last year. E.T.'s producers offered to use the Hershey product only after Mars, Inc., maker of M & Ms, turned it down. Hershey Vice President Jack Dowd then flew to Hollywood to see still photos from the film and make sure that the candy was not going to be in a monster film...
Reese's Pieces look very much like M & Ms, and the brand name is not mentioned in the film. But keen-eyed children quickly spotted the orange Reese's Pieces wrapper, and the rush to the candy counter was on. Hershey is now giving away an E.T. sticker with every bag of Reese's Pieces bought in 800 of the 1,100 theaters showing the movie. Five bags earn a free T shirt. Really sweet-toothed fans can redeem the labels from five half-pound sacks for a poster of favorite scenes from the film. That would...
...last focus of the civil rights movement and the more general social activism of the late 1960s. Its potential constituency was the broadest and the deepest, but so were the problems it addressed: too wide, too varied, rooted too deep in sexuality and self-image, even in language. Ms.? An abbreviation for manuscript; an affectation otherwise, a pretense. Abortion? A moral question, never a biological one. Right to work? Something the unions settled during the Depression...
...twisting the rules becomes excusable. Thus they provide a few of the better suggestions and hints to guide your cheating. "Coughing codes and answer passing in class are apparently riskier techniques than the bathroom plant and the old-fashioned cribsheet. What of reworking an already-published essay as did Ms Napolitano? A "much safer" and a "beautiful way" to produce the last minute paper, say the authors...
...Finally, Ms. Brown seeks to discomfort me with an analogy between gays and Blacks, which totally reject. None would suggest that changes in the environment could give anyone a choice as to his or her race, and neither science nor the sum of human experience provide any basis for valuing one race above another. If Ms. Brown understands this distinction I think it is wrong for her to invoke an identity between gays and Blacks simply because both groups have been subjected to unfair discrimination. E.L. Pattullo...