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...over lunch, which consisted of Pizza, and Coke, and all sorts of Cookies which are good for clowns, I pondered the question of how to get to Clown heaven and forgot about the taste of my Clown lunch. And I imagined things which I thought the Clown God would think he should forgive me for before letting me into Clown Heaven. And although it sounded really fun to goto Clown heaven...and it made me feel a little better for awhile, I still did not know why I was a Clown. And my friend was still gone...
...Coca-Cola gathered a group of young students and models on a hilltop near Rome to sing what would become the most memorable U.S. ad ditty of the era: "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony/ I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company." The choristers got a flat $50 fee, while the commercial earned Coca-Cola thousands of approval letters and the effervescence of a song that sold more than 1 million copies...
...relive that moment? Coke tried, with results that will air for the first time on Jan. 28 during the Super Bowl broadcast. The new ad features 16 members of the old cast on the same hilltop, along with their children and dozens of other youngsters. There's one other twist to the revived classic: some cast members turned down the flat fee this time and opted for residuals...
Meanwhile, the 2-9 Crimson was aching to get back to the friendly confines of Briggs Cage, of Cambridge, of the East. No more cherry coke at the press table. No more cotton candy hawkers in the stands. No more song-and-dance troupes behind the basket. And no PAC-10 teams on the other side of the scorers table...
Biggest Letdowns. Kodak's disk cameras took fuzzy pictures. RJR's Premier, the so-called smokeless cigarette, tasted like burning plastic. New Coke wasn't the real thing. The Pontiac Fiero caught on fire, literally, then flamed out. Home banking via personal computer was for nerds. All-suite hotels went up, then stood vacant. And portfolio insurance may have helped cause the crash...