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The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
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George Frederick Will
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