Word: razors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most of the successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines of the men behind the animation, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding (TIME, Oct. 19). Like the meatball ad, Gillette razor blade spots take the viewer into a studio taping session. The best ad has a director trying to induce Pitcher Tom Seaver to describe his shave as "closer." But every time the director says "closer," Seaver merely moves the pack of blades closer to his face or the camera. Eventually...
Drinan is an enigmatic figure. He is a leader in the new "underground" Catholic Church. His candidacy drew fire from such spokesmen for rightwing Catholicism as Father Daniel Lyons, the radio priest sponsored by the Schick Safety Razor Co., who disliked his mixing the priesthood with politics...
...small but crucial bloc is likely to continue to force Congress to hew to a line of thought expressed in 1956 by Senator John F. Kennedy, who four years later was himself involved in a presidential election in which his electoral-vote margin was large, his popular plurality razor thin. "It seems to me that Falkland's definition of conservatism is quite appropriate," Kennedy said. " 'When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change...
...Keeffe's tender, expanded details of Jimson weed, desert roses, shingles and pebbles, a generation used to psychedelics will recognize a part of its own experience-reality declaring its inexhaustible fullness. Perhaps it is the concentration of such images, with their shifts of scale and razor-sharp exactitude, that leads some viewers to compare them to Surrealism. But surrealist imagery is, almost by definition, fantastic, whereas O'Keeffe's paintings insist that they are not dreams: the commonest object unfolds itself, seen awake in full sunlight. She is not a metaphorical artist (everything is what...
...private for publication, Price returns to the parting of the lovers in a moody, troubled story, "Good and Bad Dreams," that is the best in the book. This time the lovers are husband and wife, and the parting is deadly; she slashes her arm with a razor and nearly dies. Weeks later he sleeps uneasily beside her. "At the end of his dream he fell or flew. Fall or flight, free or pursued, he could not say which ..." A stinging physical perception ends the story, as the narrator's wife rouses briefly: "She falls to her back, turns...