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actress wore or used or ate was such an ad as had never been
dreamed of. The American bathroom, kitchen, and car, like
everything else, got the Arabian Nights treatment. The result
was that all ads in magazines and the press had to look like
scenes from a movie. They still do. But the focus has had to
become softer since TV.
With radio, ads openly went over to the incantation of the
singing commercial. Noise and nausea as a technique of
achieving unforgettability became universal. Ad and image
making became, and have remained, the one really dynamic and
growing part of the economy. Both movie and radio are hot
media, whose arrival pepped up everybody to a great degree,
giving us the Roaring Twenties. The effect was to provide a
massive platform and a mandate for sales promotion as a way
of life that ended only with The Death of a Salesman and the