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Real world applications of semiotics have tended to remain on the "contestatory" aide of things, "deconstructing," mass media ads in a process much like that of trying to figure out how many human figures are in the Camel on the cigarette box. But for Blonsky, this kind of selling is mere gimmicky compared to what can be done with semiotics, and what is now being done with semiotic insights. Blonsky notes that the most recent, novel use of the point of view, though it is as yet perhaps unconscious, is to sell products for which there is initially no real...
Though Giancana was responsible for untold murders, he was a stickler for social form. Dinner guests were ceremoniously presented to Antoinette. She was introduced, for example, to a "Mr. Humphreys," although "the rest of the world might know him as Murray the Camel." Giancana offered a silent prayer before the lavish meals the family shared with notorious killers. Few guests could be counted on as regulars at Giancana's table. Some periodically vanished into penitentiaries. Others were removed by hired guns. Yet Giancana never failed to bring his family to the wake of a fellow mobster, even when...
...move: in one day she visits Brancusi, Stein, Pound, Joyce's wife Nora, and has dinner with Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Bryher proves to be a great traveler who mingles comfortably and is resourceful under pressure. In London, during World War II, she had cloth woven from camel hair collected at the city zoo. She also tried to raise chickens during the blitz, but the birds ate their own eggs. Just as well. H.D. would not eat chicken for fear that it might be cat. What is a biographer to do? - By R.Z. Sheppard
...sell the stocks in their portions of the pot as they see fit. In that way, the company does not bet everything on one strategy. Says Day: "We use six different minds on the same problem. We're a committee that designs a horse instead of a camel." Over the past decade, the Trust Company of the West has beaten the S & P 500 index by an annual average of at least 2%, but last year the company fell behind somewhat. Reason: the managers failed to switch money fast enough from high-technology shares, which were big gainers early...
Modestly ironic accounts of crocodiles evaded, sheep's-ear soup survived, and thieving camel drivers overcome are what a proper travel book requires. The author labors at gaudy landscapes because they make good backdrops for sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...