Word: calvin
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Mr.Open Jump Shot, co-captain Tom Mannix, hit 7 of 10 from the floor, most of them from about 20 feet out, to add 17 points to the Harvard total. Flashy sophomore Calvin Dixon, co-captain Mark Harris, and freshman centerforward Monroe Trout (six for seven, all in the second half) also scored in double figures for the Crimson...
...Crimson second half started with Fleming reeling off eight points and Joe Carrabino and Calvin Dixon adding a basket apiece to put Harvard up by 11, 64-53, with 7:03 to go. Dixon paced the Crimson transition offense, driving the length of the floor and dishing off five assists to the Harvard forwards...
That is how Calvin Klein jeans are being hawked in a TV commercial called The Feminist. It is one of a series of six Klein ads that, besides selling a lot of $50 pants, are bringing a message to the media: vulgarity in advertising is on the rise, and bottoms are big business. Responding to an avalanche of viewer complaints, NBC in New York City last week banned The Feminist, which is the most suggestive in the series. Earlier CBS and ABC affiliates in Los Angeles and New England rejected some of the other commercials as well. The stations have...
Klein's former ad agency, Scali, McCabe, Sieves, resigned the jeans-maker's account a few months ago, when Calvin Klein insisted on directing the commercials himself. Even so, President Ed McCabe reports that his shop "has had more letters begging us to take the ads off the air than I've ever experienced in this business." Says Evelyn Dee, a staff member of Morality in Media, a New York antipornography group: "We have got tons of letters. A lot of people think Brooke Shields is being exploited...
Because of the high price of airfare, Calvin Ho will not be going home to San Diego to tell funny Harvard stories. Not that he doesn't have any: "The first time it snowed, it was so cold and so white, I really didn't know what to do." He can't remember ever seeing snow before...