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...commercials are seen in movie theaters than on TV) came a parade of chimpanzees peddling tea, a horse in a German kitchen praising a new refrigerator, the Loch Ness monster breathing fire to light a Scotsman's cigarette. American cowboys peddled Scotch whisky in Spanish, and an African witch doctor praised British beer. Victims of auto accidents emerged with their shirts clean because they had been washed with France's Pax soap. "You can always tell the country of origin without a catalogue, even if you don't spot the language." said Judge Thomas P. Olesen...
...steaming Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan one morning last week, witch doctors in intricately carved masks and grass skirts threw themselves at the feet of a lofty figure clad in the suntans of a French brigadier general. On the edge of a throng that had been pouring into the city since dawn, three ebony maidens displayed bare breasts painted in the French tricolor blue, white and red. With evident delight at the warmth of his welcome, Charles de Gaulle threw his arms wide in a V-for-Victory sign and cried: "Eh bien, eh bien! The community is made...
Never slow to slip into a good thing, the fashion industry already counts more than a dozen firms making tights, selling all they can produce at prices ranging around $4 to $5 for adults. Most are made of stretch nylon, come in a rainbow of colors-witch black, seaweed green, wild teal and fire orange. They are often worn with shell shoes, sneakers or moccasins. Says a Detroit buyer: "Did you ever hear of warm, comfortable, fashionable glamour? Well, this...
Evidently Monocle's still worried about the McCarthy era and the witch-hunts. Its prose and poetry are stranded between a sense of persecution and the cocktail party undergraduate skepticism which rules out being Beat or anything else with a more definitive label than lazy. America-baiting went out of intellectual fashion along with Johnny Ray, and college sophomores usually discover that if this country's not much better than most others, it's certainly no worse. Monocle hasn't made that discovery; like a little boy stealing nickles from the collection plate, it's still getting its adrenalin from...
...West Coast Champion to The Purple People Eater. Record manufacturers are cranking out imitative disks as fast as they can make them, including Wooley's own sequel, Purple People Eater Plays Earth Music, Cuban Purple People Eater (in cha cha cha rhythm), The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka-Dotted Poliwampus (about a creature that eats Purple People Eaters) and Purple Herring Fresser (a Yiddish version). Disk jockeys all over the country have invited their listeners to draw the Purple People Eater (both the jockeys and listeners seemed to miss the fine point that the People Eater...