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...made up mostly of fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans, which is why Speaker Newt Gingrich was backing Brooks Firestone, an heir to the family tire business who became a winemaker and, since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes instead the more conservative underdog, state assemblyman Tom Bordonaro. (The ads created a stir when local network affiliates refused to run them, saying they described the procedure too graphically.) The Firestone-Bordonaro infighting...
READ THIS! It's not what ad agencies used to call the soft sell. No subliminal advertising here. "Smoke this," demands a new Winston Cigarettes ad. Smell This is the unsubtle brand name of a new fragrance. Taste This, urges Ellen DeGeneres' latest CD. Rock This! insists Chris Rock's recent tome. So what gives? It's part of the continuing evolution of louche street slang into the mainstream. And, if you buy this, consumers just like to be told what...
Daily Spin "Legalize abortion fast. I don't want to wait." ? A lingerie-clad woman facing two assailants, in a two-page advertisement run in Brazilian magazines. The ad has been banned; the lingerie company that created it faces fines for "abusive advertising...
...grants package passed with only three negative votes after a lengthy debate on whether to strike an ad hoc grant to the Alternative Senior Gift Fund...
Last spring, the Fund had asked for an ad hoc grant to pay the photo copying and labeling costs required to inform seniors about their alternatives...