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...makers of the new pop do not ignore this rage. They embrace, exploit and transform it. As the California rap group N.W.A. announces at the start of its album Straight Outta Compton: "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge." What they know from the street may not be what the heartland wants to hear. The message may be cleansing or hateful; the lyrics and limericks may expand or debase the language. And if X-rated pop adheres to writer Theodore Sturgeon's useful rule that "90% of everything is crud," most of it may be awful...
Saturday morning's heat saw the Crimson battling rivals Princeton and MIT in the traditional race for the Compton Cup. The Crimson opened the race with a four-seat lead at the 500-meter mark and continued to move through the second-place Tigers until the Crimson had established open water by the 1000-meter mark...
Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
...halt the exodus, the Saatchis divided their advertising empire into two separate international networks. Backer & Spielvogel was merged with Ted Bates, while Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and Compton were combined to form Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide. Says Carl Spielvogel, chairman of the merged Backer Spielvogel Bates network: "We don't cooperate with the other network in any way. We compete for the same clients." Simultaneously, lesser Saatchi- owned agencies were arranged in smaller groups...
...went on a billion-dollar spree that sparked panic on then complacent Madison Avenue and helped fuel a merger frenzy as other agencies joined forces to stay in the game. Meanwhile the brothers bought and bought. Among the dozens of U.S. firms they scooped up were top names like Compton Communications (purchased in 1982 for $55 million), Dancer Fitzgerald Sample (1986, $75 million) and Backer & Spielvogel (1986, $100 million...