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...considers lobby group GetUp "a gathering of the converted," but it's an e-gathering with punch. In two years it's amassed 211,000 members. Members sign petitions, write letters and donate: earlier this year, GetUp raised $250,000 in 72 hours for a TV ad campaign. And this week the group will launch howshouldivote.com.au, offering an online survey to match voters with the candidate who best suits their views. "We see our role as reducing the space between citizens and the people who want to represent them," says executive director Brett Solomon, who calls members "progressive" rather than...
...second half: Things you should know: Demuyakor is known as "AD...
...certainty embedded in Zakii's paintings comes largely from his drawing, mastered during an advertising career in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, where he worked at various ad agencies as an illustrator until he was 36. "If you're trained in advertising you can't have a blurry composition because you have to get the message across with a minimum of effort," says Hamdan Omar, an art-school chum of Zakii's who worked alongside him in the Kuala Lumpur ad world. As a consequence, Zakii's polished paintings sometimes appear unattractive to collectors looking for more frisson - a characteristic...
Hillary Clinton wasn't on the ballot last year in western Pennsylvania, but you might not have known that from the ad that ran on local television a month before the election. The spot featured images of Clinton with Democratic congressional candidate Jason Altmire, who had served on her health-care task force when she was First Lady. It was one of more than 30 negative campaign commercials run against Democratic candidates in which Clinton played a co-starring role, according to the research firm TNS Media Intelligence. "The opposition did research in my district," says Altmire...
...Garth Brooks doesn't have her husband's ability to spin average material into commercial gold, and here her material is below average. The up-tempo title track barrels at you with the charm of a truck ad, while the lamely worded ballads float away without carrying any real emotion. Yearwood sings with brassy heft, but she can't lift this...