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...simple farmer; we'll call him Merle: "Some things jes git better with time..." (more Copelandesque strains) Merle goes on to describe the painstaking process by which the "tobacco smooth enough to be Select" is cultivated and packaged. We follow the camera through Merle's tobacco fields to his barn, where another man cuts and dries the tobacco leaves. The crop will become Wintson Select's "Perfectly Aged Tobacco," rolled into cigarettes and smoked by hardy consumers who will eventually get cancer...
...advertisement betrays a multiplicity of hidden messages. The image of the cigarette/ phallus remains central, perhaps suggesting Merle's own doubts about his manhood. As Merle stands, patriachal, yet despairing amidst the rolling fields of tobacco, the camera shifts once again to an image of sexual negation. The Barn is a Keatsian cave of forlorn despair and homosexual repression, suggesting void on both a sexual and an ontological level. The only hint of resolution comes in the form of conversion. All seems resolved as the tobacco is mysteriously rendered into phallic triumph in the form of the omnipresent cigarette...
...students aren't in session. The barn (and what a descriptive word that is, "barn," with all the animal noises it connotes) won't be loud, right...
...nation. Even at Harvard, this view persists. You don't see the "Turkey Club" along with the Phoenix, Owl and Porcellian. (At the same time, they don't call the Porcellian the "Ham Sandwich.") What stands the boring, nocturnal owl above the turkey? Why do those musty 'old-barn' men prefer "oink" to "gobble...
...notion of ours as a generation with fewer opportunities for financial success than our parents is not entirely exaggerated. Their realism has become our own private neurosis. Don't say career, kids, say Weenie Barn. But The Twenty-Something American Dream contradicts the prevailing image of twenty-somethings as a generation of impoverished bohemians. Having heard "give me liberty or give me death" in many a fifth grade history class, some of us may have dreamed, however foolishly, of one day being the ones up against the wall when the revolution came...