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...KENTUCKY CRAFTS," the sign says. "You'll come to love them." A stuffed white teddy bear and a blue and white checkered tablecloth adorned the billboard. Not surprisingly, this encouragement to the local economy bears the name of Gov. John Y. Brown. But it also carries the endorsement of Phyllis George Brown, CBS sportscaster, former Miss America and wife of the governor. More than just advertising the products, however, the first lady is also continuing a surprising recent tradition of women active in politics in the South...
...green-backed chairs. Prominent red stars dominate the revolutionary posters on the walls, and a large red-lettered slogan in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language, reads FORWARD WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS PARTY. Not far away, in a flag-bedecked square, a 16-ft.-high red billboard carries the unsmiling trinity of Marx, Engels and Lenin, the new patron saints of the revolution that extinguished a 2,000-year-old monarchy...
When it departs from form, the wedding becomes a psychodrama and what the counterculture called a happening. Its symbolism grows promiscuous. Sometimes the emphasis is political rather than romantic. Earnest couples are known to billboard their environmental interests in the vows so that, say, vigilance against dioxin and acid rain may become part of the conjugal agenda. Such messages turn the wedding into a paid political message or else something like a professional tennis player's shirt, pasted here and there with the logos of products he is paid to advertise...
...CBS/Records Group, which together with Warner commands 45% of the market, closed down a record-and tape-manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Ind., and has laid off some 1,500 employees. Says Group President Walter Yetnikoff: "It used to be that if any artist said, 'I want a billboard on Sunset Strip,' we'd say, Fine.' But not any more...
...everyone in Washington is worried about Grenada's exporting revolution, the island is having enough problems trying to import it. English may still be the first language of the island, but it often comes off second best when it comes to translating socialist slogans. The revolution communicates by billboard in the way that Californians do by bumper sticker, posting its noble but often mind-numbing reminders at almost every road turning and intersection: THE LAND IS OUR WEALTH, EDUCATION IS OUR LIBERATION, WORK HARDER, GROW MORE FOOD, BUILD THE REVOLUTION. With equal alacrity, the Grenadians have adeptly copied...