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Article: American Folk Festival: Build it and they will come
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- August 27, 2005
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About halfway through the network evening news show earlier this
week one of those tedious ads for the latest patent medicine that we
are told we simply can't live without came on the screen.
The voice pushing the product made the usual extravagant claims in
promising that the new pill would bring immediate relief from what-
ever health problem might be bugging the viewer at the moment, and
then it delivered the obligatory rapid-fire disclaimer about possible
negative side effects.
When The Voice returned to its sales pitch without having planned
a decent segue into its final plug for the miracle product, the
result was comical: "Common side effects include constipation, muscle
soreness, ...