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...Sasha on the Capitol steps, the retailer probably won't sit on this news. Cohen suggests a word-of-mouth guerrilla marketing campaign - for example, a Facebook group promoting the girls in J. Crew that asks users to sign up as fans. "They have to practice the subtle art of selling," says Cohen. "Go out and create a buzz, and just have others do it for you." Chen says J. Crew will most likely send an e-mail to customers in its database - about 22 million, according to Chen - highlighting the clothes worn by the First Daughters...
...also has served on a number of boards and commissions including the Mayor's Commission on Economic Opportunity in New York, the Apollo Theatre Foundation, the boards of Howard University, the Museum of Modern Art, Citigroup and Estée Lauder...
...will live on in a radically altered, symbiotic form as the small, pointy peak of a mighty pyramid. If readers want to pay for the old-school premium package, they can get their literature the old-fashioned way: carefully selected and edited, and presented in a bespoke, art-directed paper package. But below that there will be a vast continuum of other options: quickie print-on-demand editions and electronic editions for digital devices, with a corresponding hierarchy of professional and amateur editorial selectiveness. (Unpaid amateur editors have already hit the world of fan fiction, where they're called beta...
...what about progress? What’s more American than that? Rob Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art, called Wyeth “anti-modern,” and the posthumous consensus is that he gave the “silent majority” that were his fans the illusion of an America that no longer existed. Wyeth did his best-remembered work in the post-WWII 1940s, when America was just testing its strength as a world power. America had growing pains, and Wyeth was prescribing the opiate nostalgia...
...just see nostalgia in Wyeth’s paintings. I happened to be in New York the day he died, and was able to spend a good, long time in front of “Christina’s World,” which the Museum of Modern Art has held since 1949. Christina was a real acquaintance of Wyeth’s, and following a childhood illness was paralyzed from the waist down. She refused to use a wheelchair, and instead grabbed and crawled her way through the physical and metaphoric world. In the painting we can see only...