Word: billboards
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...MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Affordable no-star accommodation out of town is available for those with their own transportation. A funky cartoon billboard near Thom's Elephant Camp (about six kilometers south of Pai in the middle of the valley near Tha Pai Hot Springs) announces the well-designed and landscaped bungalow complex called Spa Exotic Home. Run by a decidedly non-bohemian former Bangkok businesswoman with an eye for detail and a faith in word-of-mouth promotion, the seven individual bungalows have Balinese-style bathrooms with private hot mineral water tubs. Spa's peaceful and intimate rooms...
DIED. TIMOTHY WHITE, 50, editor of the record-industry trade publication Billboard; of a heart attack; in New York City. After taking over Billboard in 1991, White presided over an expansion of its pages and urged social-consciousness upon the industry in his columns. He also wrote the acclaimed 1998 biography Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley...
...missing inhabitants, lit by streetlamps, early dawn or winter dusk. Chris Campbell's specialty is car wrecks under a sodium glare. He finds most of his models in the streets around his studio in Walthamstow, in east London. In his "first grand car painting," the car lurks behind a billboard next to a busy road, light falling on the concrete pillars that frame this slice of no-man's-land. Campbell, 27, started painting night and the city while a student at Leeds Metropolitan University. "Day pictures don't have the same emotion," he says. When painter Duncan Swann came...
...Spirit Room has sold close to a million copies since August, according to SoundScan; Vanessa Carlton, 21, whose first effort, Be Not Nobody, has sold 300,000 copies in its three months of release; and Avril Lavigne, 17, whose first album, Let Go, debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 this month. They're young popstresses who write their own songs, play instruments, claim to wear whatever they damn well please, don't dance, and love nothing better than puncturing others' pretensions. They sing pop rock that's gentle enough for ears reared on Mandy Moore but organic...
...there were less competition and more pooling of resources. Manufacturers, however, hate the idea of cooperation. After all, Honda's and Sony's corporate images are burnished by their keen machines?they demonstrate technological superiority over rivals. Even if it can't do the dishes, as a walking billboard ASIMO does just fine...