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Banks of New York and the seduction of banking ads
Russell Baker skewers New York banks and their seductive television campaigns that promise romance and riches. The columnist recalls impulse purchases, waits in queues, and a sterile reality where tellers are bored, cameras roll, and the promised alluring teller never appears. The piece ends with rebuke of banks that overpromise and underdeliver.
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