Word: blurbing
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Allow me to quote from the promotional blurb: "Jenna and Gina - two sexy sisters and the daughters of a wealthy entrepreneur - decide that television programming is their true calling. So with daddy's bank check they take over a fledgling public access channel, uplink it to a satellite and turn it into Flesh TV. All erotic. All the time...
...time I leave the convention, they had still not sold their show. I figure the blurb was too intellectual. It should have just said: "Wayne's World - but with two hot chicks running a porno channel...
...hundred words in a college newspaper could never do justice to the praise of Polly Jean Harvey, who, after growing up on a sheep farm in Britain, became one of the finest indie musicians of our generation. Nevertheless, this small blurb seems the perfect place to appropriately acknowledge her understated genius. Harvey modestly writes her songs for herself and the fans of great alternative music on both sides of the Atlantic, not for radio stations and big record labels, who could only taint her art through exploitation and commercialization. Quietly, Harvey composed two of the very best albums...
...fairly civil dismemberment of Al Gore's prescription plan and degenerates into what appears to be an astonishing sneak attack. During the last few seconds, in literally the blink of an eye, the word "RATS" appears in bold capital letters superimposed over the phrase "Bureaucrats Decide." The 30-second blurb, which has been running in 33 markets since August, was not pulled, per se, but "was coming out of rotation anyway," according to the Bush campaign...
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