NABOKV-L post 0013808, Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:51:15 -0500

I was born in '54 and so don't qualify as an expert on the tv of the
early 50s.... but -- Why are you so sure that there's a real life
model for the image? Like a lot of the names and such in his
American triptych, there was a lot of fun had by the author,
generalizing from the specifics of American culture.


On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:48 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:

> Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the toiletry
> in this description in a TV commercial circa the early fifties? The
> winner will be immortalized in a footnote. Don Johnson
>
>
>
> Line 412ff The Cause
> of Poetry on Channel 8.
> A nymph came
> pirouetting, under white
> Rotating petals,
> in a vernal rite
> To kneel before
> an altar in a wood
> Where various
> articles of toilet stood.

Steven




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