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...heresy in the days when Detroit was building gigantic gas guzzlers. Another showed a VW partially submerged in water, and proud owners began to brag, "It floats." In 1969, in celebration of the first U.S. manned moon landing, VW ran a picture of the lunar-excursion module with the caption: "It's ugly, but it gets you there...
...rowed a good race, and perhaps it's [the loss] because we're just starting out our season," said senior Caption Bill Fitzgerald of the varsity eight's finish behind Washington-"Just a tremendous crew"--California and Navy in the varsity championship...
...take charge" image had taken hold even before March 30. Only a few weeks before, my photograph (jaw jutting, arms akimbo) had been on the cover of TIME magazine. With the insouciant hyperbole for which that publication is famous, the caption read "Taking Command." Inside, under a bold line reading "The 'Vicar' Takes Charge," the editors devoted several pages of snare-drum prose to an account of my life and a description of the Reagan foreign policy. ABC reported: "The sight of Alexander Haig taking command on the cover of TIME magazine was more than some of the President...
...Christian Dior advertisement showed a wedding scene, and the coyly phrased caption read, "Just a legendary private affair." The picture, part of a $2.5 million advertising campaign, showed real-life celebrities Gene Shalit, 51, Ruth Gordon, 87, and Shari Belafonte, 29, along with Model Barbara Reynolds, who looks an awful lot like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Unamused, Onassis filed court papers charging that the advertisement had violated her privacy and exploited her image commercially. New York Justice Edward Greenfield last week agreed and barred Reynolds from appearing in any advertisements masquerading as Jackie O. Quoting no less an authority than Shakespeare...
...feel as free to criticize his positions as I do to offer ideas to anyone, including the current administration. Moreover, I feel that the amount of time devoted to such concerns must not detract from my teaching and research. These limits are important, and are not caught by the caption that you used. Joseph S. Nye Professor of Government