Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago, marathoner Tom Smithburg works out daily and, in place of morning coffee, downs a megadose of ginseng: 1,000 mg, vs. the recommended maximum of 600 mg. "Coffee is a drug," says Smithburg, a public relations representative of the Chicago Bulls. "I hear more people complaining that they have headaches over the weekend from not getting their caffeine...
What started in the stadiums is creeping into your cash machine. Four Chicago banks are experimenting with filling those few seconds while a transaction is being processed--seconds, you might argue, that don't strictly need filling--with onscreen commercial loops. Will they influence your purchasing decisions? Perhaps. But how likely would you be to buy a product when your ATM erases any record of your deposit because it's paying more attention to showing you a dreamy, slo-mo image of a new car slaloming through racing cones than it is to processing your transaction...
...just one CD but two! His new live version of Friends in Low Places stretches on for almost nine minutes! And, to push Double Live, he's planning one of the most ambitious promotional campaigns of the year! Says Joe Kvidera, general manager of Tower Records in Chicago's Lincoln Park: "He's just so relentless promoting his stuff. It's kind of scary...
...work of 80 journalists is included, with a nice sampling of memorable reportage from the home front: Norman Mailer on both the 1967 march on the Pentagon and the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago; James Michener's intricate reconstruction of the Kent State killings; Michael Kinsley on the revolt of the Harvard intellectuals against their friend and colleague Henry Kissinger, to name...
...final pieces in the collection are about the mad scramble of the Americans to leave Saigon in April 1975. Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News was one of the last reporters out, leaving aboard a helicopter that took off from the roof of the American embassy as thousands of fearful South Vietnamese begged to be taken out of their country. Beech clawed his way through that crowd and, as Vietnamese clung to his limbs, was finally pulled over the embassy wall by a U.S. Marine. "My last view of Saigon," he wrote, "was through the tail door...