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...other news, the council passed a resolutionto create an ad hoc committee to re-evaluate itseffectiveness on campus...
Jerry Seinfeld discusses credit-card interest rates with a goldfish, yet. In another ad, he watches as a wealthy consumer is rebuffed by the salesclerk when he proffers the card. Says Seinfeld: "What! You pick the clothes, he picks the card?" Perfect casting. Seinfeld's message drips with a sarcasm that Amex could not deliver directly...
...higher proportion of the young viewers most sought by advertisers. Opinion on Madison Avenue is mixed: some call Leno's performance disappointing; others are upbeat. "Leno is holding up quite well with all the competition that has been thrown against him," says Richard J. Kostyra, executive vice president at ad agency J. Walter Thompson...
...seem to represent different show-business generations. Letterman, with his subversive antics and ironic attitude, does not so much act as host for a talk show as satirize talk shows. He is following a trail blazed by Carson, who introduced a self-parodying subtext. Carson's famous "savers" -- ad-libs to salvage jokes that bombed -- along with his conspiratorial asides to the audience during corny bits like Aunt Blabby and Carnac, were a way of making the comedian himself the butt of the joke...
...Ad Board, those judges of social taboo...