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Conspicuously absent from the team is advertising. Nissan's nontraditional marketing plan for the GT-R includes viral video, manga, two documentaries and a tie-in with Sony Computer Entertainment for an appearance in PlayStation's new Gran Turismo 5. The strategy is another signal of change: publicity-generated marketing is common practice for brands like Aston Martin and Lamborghini...
...upbeattempo and perfectly timed vocals onsuch tracks as “Unsuccessful Club Nights”and “House Music” is irresistible.Unlike many mainstream rap artists,Cadence Weapon’s music steers clear of aformulaic sound.The standard, commercially successfularrangement of verse-chorus alternationis noticeably absent from “AfterpartyBabies.” Cadence Weapon seems tobe more concerned with expressing hisopinions and telling a story through hismusic than pounding out radio-friendlysingles.Throughout “Afterparty Babies,” CadenceWeapon flippantly comments onmainstream culture and music. On “Tattoosand What They Really...
Nevertheless, there is an underlying sentiment in these lamentations—however awfully distorted and misdirected—with which one can sympathize, something completely absent amongst the counter-complainers, who are no less obnoxious. Where were they–given their claims of moral superiority and wisdom—when Harvard lost over 350 million dollars in a hedge fund last year? Or when the administration breached its contract with its workers? Of course, they were too jaded to care. For these people, it seems that it’s the feeling of superiority over their classmates that matters...
...passions are also evident in her artwork. “For a lot of the pictures, I was interested in the way text functions, that you can read all of the notes, cereal boxes, and papers,” she says. In a photograph of her refrigerator, which is absent from the exhibit but is included in the exhibition catalogue, the appliance bears a magazine pullout entitled, “Do I Dare to Eat a Strawberry?” A jar of Colon Cleanse sits on top of the fridge next to a box of Cheerios.Calling herself...
...military strategy in Mosul for both U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces is much the same approach used elsewhere in Iraq over the years, with mixed results. Absent, however, is one key aspect that shaped progress in other places over the past year: local volunteer security forces who, in many cases, were nationalist insurgents who broke with al-Qaeda in Iraq. U.S. officials say that strategy won't work in Mosul, because standing up bands of irregulars could inflame existing ethnic and sectarian divisions in the city. So many U.S. military officials see provincial elections...