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...resolution, which was the brainchild of Vice Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, attempts to prevent the disclosure of confidential information during the hearings...
...good folks at Salada, however, maintain that the saying serve a higher purpose. Although the Tag Lines were the brainchild of a Salada ad man--one John W. Colpitts in 1962--the purpose behind them has never been a "commercial one, but mainly one of public service," according to Gerry J. Doutre, the president of the company that owns Salada. The idea behind the Tag Lines is to the give tea drinkers "something to do while you dangle," as an old advertising campaign...
...underdog reformer as president -- Watch out, wiseguys . . . Sam Skinner moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock heaven. The hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit has become an anthem for apathetic kids . . . Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't pick up her Nobel Peace Prize this year because the regime in Burma (also...
...Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, just to name the top of the line), no one can doubt the director's emotional attachment to his material. It's just that he has chosen the wrong way to demonstrate it. In effect, he has spoiled his brainchild rotten. Hook is not bratty, which might at least have been fun. It's stuffy, like one of those overdressed rich kids, standing forlorn in the corner at a party, afraid of ripping his clothes...
Whichever, it's the brainchild of Faith and Jill Soloway, sisters and members of Chicago's Metraform Theater, an underground group whose other theatrical pranks have included Coed Prison Sluts, The Miss Vagina Pageant and That Darned Antichrist. One afternoon last year an actor friend of theirs, Becky Thyre, was at Faith's home entertaining them with an impersonation of Marcia, the eldest Brady girl. A light bulb went off for the trio of self- described "Brady obsessors": Why not put an entire Brady episode onstage? "We discussed screwing with the story lines and updating them, making them...