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...voice. "Somethin' said, 'Don't turn this chick down,' " Sherrill recalled later. Thus it came about that he signed Tammy Wynette, supervised her first recording session and even wrote the song for it: Apartment Number Nine. The record reached the top 20 on the Billboard country charts. Tammy's next two, Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad and DIVORCE, also Sherrill songs, went all the way to No. 1-followed by some 20 more, all Sherrill-written and produced. One of them, Stand By Your Man, sold 1.5 million copies, became the second...
Jenkins' car, known as Grumpy's Toy, is a rolling billboard for automotive-parts companies. In addition to his track earnings, he commands $1,500 a night, win or lose, for helping dragstrip owners fill the stands for exhibition matches. He employs a public relations consultant to help spread his fame-and perhaps counteract the effect of his personality. Though he can be amiable off the track, fans know him as a dour churl who snarls at well-wishers and even puts up barriers to keep spectators away from his pit. Readers of Hot Rod magazine, however, were...
UNDEVELOP! -New Mexico billboard campaign MAINE IS NOT FOR SALE -Bumper sticker "Please come and visit us in Oregon again and again. But for heaven's sake don't come and live here." -Oregon Governor Tom McCall...
...Byzantine art; the background of the sky against the neon signs resembles the gold in the background of an icon." But Times Square is already a work of art which, like the Vegas Strip, cannot be mimicked in a gallery. No painting can be as immediate as a billboard. No artist, with a limited budget and space, can equal the circuitry and programming of a full-dress neon display. Knowing this, Chryssa prudently went into neon as fictive archaeology...
Members of the militant American Indian movement passed that sign on their way to seize Wounded Knee. It is unlikely that they took any particular notice of the yellowed billboard. But to the white man, the sign works like a neon light, blinking subconsciously, "45 miles ahead-rid yourself of your guilt feelings here...