Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercials are the work of a team headed by Robert Cox, a Young & Rubicam executive. "Our not so subtle message is that if you're not reading TIME, you're missing something," he says. Directed by Tony Scott, the prizewinning Briton who made Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II, the images are fashioned to convey the same idea: the energy, intelligence, excitement and authority that go into each issue of TIME...
Harris probably could have carried a conventional account of the founding of a bananas republic unaided. But Director Alex Cox and Writer Rudy Wurlitzer are helpful deadpan absurdists. They point up the parallels between 19th and 20th century imperialism with sly, casually dislocating anachronisms. Accompanied by a rock score, Coke bottles, North American magazines carrying cover stories about Walker's exploits, even a Marine helicopter all turn up at ! the strangest moments. At best one thinks of Brecht's presentational theater, at worst (not often) of Saturday Night Live. At all times one is glad to see the spirit...
...organization's Co-Chairperson Ellen Cox '89said she thought Dole had done a good job "atshowing that compassionate and Republican are notmutually exclusive terms...
Bork decided they were right. He likened the situation to his role in the Saturday Night Massacre, when his first inclination was to resign after firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox at President Nixon's request. Instead, he decided it would be best to stay and see the crisis through. Putting aside his withdrawal statement, Bork began, with the help of his sons, to draft an eloquent explanation of his decision to fight...
quad: a shell with four scullers and a cox...