Word: billboarded
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...weeks residents of the Mediterranean port of Nice have been enjoying striptease by billboard. It began last month, when large signs appeared displaying a bikini-clad blond against the Backdrop of the resort's famed beachfront. She pledged in large letters to TAKE IT OFF, and indeed in the next installment her top was gone. When, in the billboard's third version, the bathing beauty finally showed up in the altogether, the accompanying slogan read: AS PROMISED AFTER 21 MONTHS OF SOCIALISM, I'VE GOT NOTHING LEFT...
...work well together, as they did in Ken Russell's film of a decade ago. The Boy Friend Twiggy sings in a surprisingly pleasant voice and looks stylish and alluring throughout the show; her costumes and her manner subtly spoof her past as a model, as does an enormous billboard of Edythe's face that fills the stage for much of the show. Star appeal remains the show's great attraction...
...house." Pitted in a bizarre promotional contest to win an $18,000 mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks on a 6-ft. by 48-ft. platform at the base of a billboard nearly overhanging the interstate cloverleaf in Allentown, Pa. Whoever stays longest wins. WSAN, a local AM radio station that advertises on the billboard, sought to promote its switch from country and western to nostalgia music last fall by launching the giveaway contest. To qualify, listeners had only to send in 25-words...
...particularly poignant photograph in the magazines shows as emaciated and shoddily else home. Overlooking the scene, in the background, stands a great billboard depicting cigarette-smoking business executives clothed in expensive suits; their brand of cigarette, the sign announces, is "the brand for the Very Important Person." According to the World Health Organization, advertising in the Third World... offers the fulfillment of three main aspirations; unity, social status, and sex-role identification." Virility is smokiness' promoted and accepted result...
...beginning of the end for the sign came in 1979 when, at the behest of Governor Edward King, the company turned off the electricity as a symbolic energy-saving gesture. In October, Cities Service decided to dismantle the steadily deteriorating 60-ft.-high billboard, but when the wreckers arrived last month, the defenders of the beacon stopped the demolition. In April they had asked Boston's landmarks commission to declare that the structure should be preserved. Backers of the sign claimed it was a superb example of urban neon...