Word: billboard
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Lauren E. Baer '02, a social studies concentrator in Dunster House, is associate editorial chair of The Crimson. In addition to writing parodies of billboard hits and waxing sentimental about national holidays, she will continue to investigate injustices at Harvard, in America and abroad. Her column, which is running for a second semester, appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Later, as I ride in a taxi back to my R.E.M.-fan-encircled hotel, and after I pass the many multicolored billboards announcing Rock in Rio with all those pictures of enraptured Internet-connected youth, I see one sign that really stands out. It's a billboard of Cristo Redentor standing behind a huge, sweating can of Pepsi, almost like he's about to throw his arms around it. But I'm not thinking about Jesus' Pepsi just this moment. I'm thinking about how I'm gonna fit into that stupid T-shirt...
Last year Robert Diggs, a 31-year-old Staten Island, N.Y., native, made what he called a pilgrimage to China. After being forced from Tiananmen Square for displaying a self-promoting billboard, Diggs took to the hills. To be specific, he ascended Wu-Tang Mountain, where according to legend (his), he was received by kung fu masters at several monasteries. As Diggs exited a Shaolin temple, he says, a crowd of several hundred children awaited him. He proceeded to communicate the only way he knew--by rapping. "They didn't speak English, but I blew their minds and they...
...TANG CLAN's multi-platinum 1997 venture stayed on Billboard's radar for 41 weeks...
File under "Sad": musicians using Tuesday night's Billboard Music Awards as validation of their careers. Beyonc Knowles of Destiny's Child (actually, the only one of the Destiny's Children to have survived the various group changes) was quoted as saying: "they're so accurate, based on record sales and airplay-you know you made it when you made a Billboard award." Um, if they're based on record sales and airplay, shouldn't you know you made it way before then, when the money starts coming...