Word: plugging
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...crew of eccentrics is a fine setting, but using television to represent the machine age and comic books printed matter is overloading the pack. Smashing an electric computer with a sledgehammer is certainly an effective way of stopping it; but it is much less wearing simply to disengage the plug from its socket...
...attractive that one station has actually received requests to "play it again." Most of Joop's commercials run about 20 seconds, feature remarkably lifelike, plastic puppets moving stringlessly, smoothly and expressively through slapdash roles. Only near the end of the "puppetoon" does the audience get the well-cushioned plug...
...breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...
...Doctors' offices will soon be filled with patients demanding a drug called beta-syamine, the A.M.A. Journal warned, because it is getting a big plug in a little magazine (Pageant). Touted as a "miracle drug" for heart disease, arthritis and paralytic polio, the stuff actually has not been proved to be much good for anything, says the A.M.A., and has not even been passed by the Food & Drug Administration as safe for general...
...radio, the Democrats are trying a new kind of radio show: It's Up to You (ABC, Mon. 2 :45 p.m.). Starring National Committeewoman India Edwards, the 15-minute program elbows its way among the soap operas to plug the Democratic ticket. The show features a two-voiced character named Skizo Phrenia, who identifies himself as a split-personality Republican: "My motto is yes. And then again...