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...that broke new ground. The Ally & Gargano agency's Federal Express ad shattered taboos against making fun of the customer. One runner-up, adman Hal Riney's first Bartles & Jaymes wine-cooler commercial, scored with tongue-in-cheek humility. Another winner, Wendy's 1984 "Where's the Beef?" slogan, created by Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, became a political zinger in the hands of Walter Mondale. But as the 1984 election proved, even advertising has its limits...
Detroit is solid, with its only loss being the Biggest (and the worst) of the Bad Boys, Rick Mahorn. Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, John Salley, Dennis Rodman, Mark Aguirre and Joe Dumars are the class of the league. Throw in free agent acquisitions David Greenwood and Scott Hastings for beef up front, and this team looks formidable. Only dominating centers such as Ewing, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon and San Antonio's David Robinson can threaten the Bad Boys...
...fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain forest, baby, before the rain forest dies." That lyric is a pointed reference to the fact that tropical rain forests are turned into pasture so that beef cattle can be raised for export to the U.S. and that felled trees become paper for hamburger wrappers...
Boardman Professor of Fine Arts John Shearman will beef up Literature and Arts B's selection with a spring course on Michelangelo. But those hoping to fulfill this Core the cool way will be disappointed to learn that Jazz is bracketed until next year...
...bounded out of the house to greet me." The author's wife Natalya and their son Stepan, 15, listened in as Aikman conducted the 2 1/2-hour interview in Russian. When it was over, Aikman was invited to share an informal family lunch: Russian blinchiki (crepes stuffed with ground beef) prepared by Natalya...