TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES Act Now and We'll Throw in One of Georgia O'Keefe's Gold Fillings 'Takes A Nuclear Licking and Still Keeps on Ticking. . The Rado Watch Company is running a TV ad based...
...All We are Saying is Give Permanent Pre-Hostility a Chance The State Department was awarded the National Council of Teachers of English annual Doublespeak Award for its substitution of "unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life" for the word "killing" in reports of human rights violations...
...Hello Sweetheart, Get Me W.J...
...The Rado Watch Company is running a TV ad based on the last scene of "The Day After," in which a wristwatch was pulled from the rubble that was Lawrence, Kansas...
...Rado's commercials picture its new $700 Rado DiStar being unearthed from the remains of the Statue of Liberty...
...Be Sure to Remind Him or Her to Have the House Vacuumed When You Return An article in USA Today, "How Office Parties Can Work for You," contained this advice from Terry Petra, head of a career consulting firm called Professional Services Consultants: "If your spouse is antagonistic and vocal, leave him or her home...
...Sloane' According to a four-color brochure for the newly refurbished National Press Club in Washington, "our formal dining room will impress even the most discriminating tastes" and "some rooms are designer originals with furniture groupings to lend an air of casual importance...
...Runners-up included the FANs "controlled flight into terrain" for airplane crash and the Pentagon's "permanent pre-hostility" for peace...
Vol. 16 • January 1985 • No. 12
