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...This ad lives up to its “curiously satisfying” slogan. For who anticipated that the “Asian Baptist Student Koinonia” would be so playfully PoMo? In the great Pop Art tradition, the ABSK has appropriated a classic image of American consumerism and turned it to its own purposes. The point of this endlessly reproduced parody is not, of course, to sell breath mints, but to advertise values antithetical to materialism itself...
...clever premise is potentially jeopardized by its deeper implications: Are we to assume that Bible Studies, too, may be commodified for our consumption? Does the ad’s success rely, at least in part, on its prominent display during “shopping period”? This ad may have “made anew” an old trope with refreshing self-consciousness. But we wonder whether it is self-conscious enough...
This pleasingly purple ad pretends to a childlike innocence that its counterparts have not mastered. There is no greater cliché than an angry father threatening to send his child to military school unless he cleans up his act. The ad’s ingenuity is in taking this threat literally. Clean toilets, it proclaims with teenage exuberance, and your potential to “party on” is endless. Sweep the floor, the poster cries out, and earn $9.85/hr to finance “excellent” times...
Joseph S. Lindhart ’03 shared an ad in yesterday’s Crimson and postered with fellow candidate Luke R. Long ’03, a move that led to speculation that they were running as a package deal...
...Fayanju said the council will attempt to circumvent the problem by publicizing how to vote with e-mails, posters and an ad in The Crimson...