Addictions
Follies of the Madmen #330
This wife has a problem bigger than an inconsiderate husband--he's a clinical alcoholic!
From THE ELKS MAGAZINE for November 1950.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 17, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Alcohol, Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, 1950s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 6
The artist is Federico Beltran Masses.
"Hints of drugginess in the eyes, and suggestions of Sapphic eroticism laid on with a trowel, created a sultry visual cocktail that appealed equally to celebrities of the order of Rudolph Valentino, Joan Crawford and King George VI, all of whom had their portraits painted, and the general public."
Full essay here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 19, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Art, Sexuality, Russia, Twentieth Century
Billie Carleton’s Death and the Birth of a Genre
Original article here.
How did the hedonistic death of one minor actress lead to Fu Manchu and the Yellow Menace?
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 21, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Crime, Death, Literature, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1910s
Eddie Harris: That Is Why You’re Overweight
Although the tune is fine, the lyrics are the thing here, and they start around 2:20.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 25, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Food, Music, 1980s
Cure for Drunks
Give them Bogg's Tawny Port. It tastes like alcohol, but it's really cocaine syrup.
via The Beautiful New
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 10, 2015 -
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Category: Addictions, Inebriation and Intoxicants
ABOUT D@%N TIME
France has enacted a law limiting excessively thin models from working until their BMI reaches a minimum level set forth in the law. Fines and even jail time can be leveled against fashion houses and modeling agents trying to use models that are thinner than the law allows. Its about time we quit letting vanity destroy our little girls.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 05, 2015 -
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Category: Addictions, Eating, Design and Designers, Fashion, Food, Nutrition, Health, Disease, Mental Health and Insanity
Chappaqua
Yes, this is the 60s as nearly as I recall them.
If you like the trailer for Chappaqua, whole movie below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 30, 2014 -
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Category: Addictions, Movies, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Canadian Anti-smoking PSA
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 26, 2014 -
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Category: Addictions, PSA’s, Smoking and Tobacco, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Cigarette Karaoke
Plus, millions of free cigarettes for our hospitalized fighting men!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 26, 2013 -
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Category: Addictions, Business, Advertising, Hospitals, Television, Smoking and Tobacco, 1950s
Borden Ice Cream Ads
I watch only one half-hour of TV per week--THE SIMPSONS--so I am not really qualified to assert this. Maybe a reader can clarify. Are there such things nowadays as TV ads for ice cream? I think not. In the 1950s, Americans had to be trained to consume luxuries like ice cream. Now we eat it automatically, three times a day! So why waste money on ads?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 06, 2013 -
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Category: Addictions, Eating, Business, Advertising, Television, Junk Food, 1950s
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