Word: plain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many an Aquarian-Ager has been able to convert his basement into a tape factory. Nearly every city has record stores, gas stations and supermarkets with selections of bootlegged tapes and records, which are usually packaged in unadorned boxes and albums with plain white covers...
...market for $29.95, consists of three LPs, five lesson plans and two workbooks-one for the husband, the other for the wife, It also includes two "feeling self mosaics" -jigsawed figures of a man and a woman divided into pieces labeled "ashamed," "anxious," "joyous," or just plain "sexual...
...Love Story factor," says Bob Scaringi, owner of Manhattan's newly opened Bailiwick candle shop. "You know, the return to romance and sensitivity, a return to basic sanity." Bailiwick's bewildering variety of candles also helps bring in customers. In addition to the plain-Jane 25? blackout specials, the store sells candles shaped like dodo birds, penguins, onions, eggs, baskets of blueberries, footballs and, at $40, the leaning tower of Pisa...
...short, stout, balding, rumpled, plain-speaking man who viewed the world through black-rimmed bifocals and generally liked what he saw. He was, in brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
...reportedly planning a separate, disruptive demonstration protesting Harvard's refusal to fill in "Muddy Pond" on University property in Jamaica Plain where two black children drowned...