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...available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip Kotler, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines and direct mail are the most effective way to target them. Kotler cites the Sharper Image, a top-of-the-line techie catalog, as defining U-DINK style...
Swimming to Cambodia is brilliant and entertaining and should definitely be seen. Its only drawback is that, as Gray says, "it's all true except the part about the banana...
...Here" is the middle of the Banana River, near the seaside town of Melbourne. "You could say we've sort of changed our optic. We don't want the house and the big stereo. Instead, we'll travel and work a little, travel and work a little. We also think about making a fortune so we can travel endlessly, but we haven't got very far with that...
...intentions pinned down, he'll toss a thematic spitball and twist his meaning 180 degrees. The second act is a cracked mirror image of the first, as cunning and elaborate systems of role-playing and deception are peeled away, audience and cast alike slipping and sliding on the intellectual banana skins littered about the stage...
...belied by the above catalogue, there is not a lot of stylistic unity on Invisible. The one constant on this disk is Hitchcock's bizarre sense of humor, which leads him to rhyme the word "spanner" with such unlikely choice as "banana" and "iguana." When the aim is scabrous, Hitchcock creates "Trash," a scathing put-down of the star-fucking mentality in rock and roll and an explicit tribute to Lou Reed's "Dirt." But at his most playful, he comes up with "Point It At Gran," a suggestion to a gun-toting assailant...