Word: appealing
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Ironically, the show is also somewhat original by virtue of its traditional appeal. Many campus productions tend to be experimental, both in the works they select and their approaches to performing them. This Guys and Dolls isn't new or intellectual or re-interpreted in any challenging way, but it's fun. The show's very traditional aims (namely, to please) make it a rarity here, though less so in the commercial world of Broadway...
...need someone that has the appeal that will reach out to all the segments of the student population," Blake said. Along with his running mate Nicholas J. Stone '00, Blake said he advocates lobbying the administration to give 1 percent of the annual College fund to student groups...
...impeachment veterans who gave their "what would the Rodino committee do" take (they wouldn't impeach). Still to come: Witnesses discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting out the former darling of the middle-of-the-road GOP, William Weld...
Reviewing his agency's work, one is struck by Burnett's penchant for employing a range of masculine archetypes. Some were designed to appeal to female consumers. With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas. Years later, with the creation of the Doughboy, Burnett employed a cuddly endomorph to symbolize the friendly bounce of Pillsbury home-baking products. Aiming at male audiences in the '50s, a time when filter cigarettes were viewed as effeminate, Burnett introduced a tough and silent tattooed cowboy on horseback...
Ironically, no adjustments are needed outside the U.S. With restaurants in more than 114 countries, McDonald's still represents Americana. When I return to France, my niece's children, who are wild about what they call "Macdo," clamor to go there. It has a somewhat snobbish appeal for the young, who are enamored of the American life-style...