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REEBOKS are just shoes. Unless you believe the new Reebok ad campaign which depicts them as symbols for American society...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stomping on Individualism | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

There is something a bit smarmy about Reeboks even without the agressively hip ad campaign. Maybe it started when celebrities like Cybill Shepherd started wearing them with formal wear. Granted, they are better for your feet, but people who make a show of their health regimen invariably seem self-involved. The wearing of the shoe becomes an emblem, a statement...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stomping on Individualism | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...seems that Ray was so sorry about having even thought of organizing a march, that he took out a full-page ad in the B.U. Free Press explaining his position to the student body. In the ad, Ray did not say he had been pressured by the dean, perhaps because the dean paid for the ad. In any case, the march on Silber's house was cancelled, a testimony to the chicken-heartedness of student leaders in the face of a devious administration...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Your Guest is as Good as Mine | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps the ad copy-writers for Virginia Slims cigarettes really were lying when they said, "You've come a long way, baby...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Ms.--A New Cosmo? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Back when NBC set its Olympic ad rates, with an average prime-time price of $330,000 a spot, officials thought they were being cautious in projecting a rating of 21.2, meaning an audience of just over a fifth of U.S. households. Instead, prime-time ratings through the first six days averaged just 16.7. NBC officials noted that Olympics ratings tend to improve as the Games go on; the network's coverage gradually has. They said the Seoul venture would still show a profit, if less than the expected $65 million. Said NBC Sports president Arthur Watson, in offering customary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Time For the Poetry | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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