U.S. audiences have become benumbed, but last week a Canadian eavesdropper on U.S. television looked hard and loosed a cry of outrage. "I never thought I'd live to see the day when a charming, unidentified, beautifully gowned woman would stand in the corner of my living room tearing toilet tissue," complained Vancouver Province's Columnist Eric Nicol last week. He had tuned in on Seattle's Station KOMO just in time to see the commercial for Delsey tissue during the NBC Perry Como show.
Explained Nicol shakily: "We have this madonna of the tissue, throatily advising us that there is no waste as she...
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