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Does it pay to have one's name adorn the masthead of the Crimson? The answer is an emphatic...
...winter months, follows the sun to Pine Valley during the spring months, follows the shade to Camden, Maine, during the summer months, and follows the tourist guides in Europe during the cool months of autumn, And he always has. Does it pay this man to have his name adorn the divers mastheads of so many different companies? Certainly! He collects five dollars here, one thousand dollars there, fifty thousand dollars for the privilege of lending his rubber-stamped cognomen to the men who actually do his work, and glories in the title of The Old Man (pronounced in a hushed...
...offices range in size from one room set-ups staffed entirely by students to more complex offices with full-time secretaries. Some officers on the West Coust even have separate desks for the Spanish Speeking Youth for Nixon and Oriental Youth for Nixon. Posters of Nixon adorn the walls of all the offices, and rock music blares almost continuously from radios...
...florid, much laughed at language is still there; when the lovers adorn each other's bodies with blossoms, Lawrence has added a primrose "poised" in Connie's navel. But descriptions of the woods speak of a lonelier passion and are exquisite examples of an art at least as difficult as writing about sex. If this book does not convince anyone that it should become the accepted version of Lady Chatterley's story, it is at least nothing for Lawrence lovers to be ashamed...
...time-honored principle that female nudity is an asset to any sales campaign, the West German subsidiary of Japanese Fuji Film wanted a naked woman to adorn one of their five ads in Stern, West Germany's second largest illustrated weekly (circ. 1,600,000). Admen Günther-Jürgen Bahr and Claus Harden of Düsseldorf winced. Nudes are so common in German magazines that Fuji's ad would look like any other page in Stern. How to get the reader to look twice? Bahr and Harden's answer: a nude with...