Word: billboards
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...stadium for the star's entourage; private jet service; a tent at spring training from which to sell A-Rod souvenirs; a private marketing staff and an office at the park. Oh, yes, and a special request of the Mets: a guarantee that A-Rod would enjoy a greater billboard presence in Gotham than his crosstown rival, shortstop Derek Jeter of the Yankees...
...album based on Beatles non-number ones wouldn't be half-bad either. Just looking at those that made Billboard's top 10 but missed the top spot, you could have: "Twist and Shout" (no. 2), "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (no. 2), "P.S. I Love You" (no. 10), "She's a Woman" (no. 4, although really it was the B-side to "I Feel Fine"), "Nowhere Man" (no. 3) and last but certainly not least "Strawberry Fields Forever" (no. 8, although really it was the double-A side to "Penny Lane"). And that's not even counting...
Last year 31-year-old Staten Island, N.Y., native Robert Diggs made what he called a pilgrimage to China. After being forced from Tiananmen Square for displaying a self-promotional 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 all came...
...heard every song, learned way too much about her, memorized her lyrics and now you want to give something back. But how? The main thing, of course, is to buy her merchandise! The Billboard and worldwide charts are based on the number of sales, and the more albums she sells the more albums she'll make...
Strike up the Tift County High marching band. On Nov. 15 the football stadium will be jammed for the celebration, and a new billboard will soon grace the highway, forever shadowing the sod industry. But how does Tifton know it has read more books per capita than any other town? "We don't," says Brumby. "But we welcome all challenges. The idea was to teach a love of books to children, and we've done that...