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...press spokesmen were open, friendly, disarming. Dressed like Dan Rather in woolen sweaters, they answered tedious questions with droll reasonableness and prickly ones with studied courtesy. They made lame but endearing jokes at their own expense, treating reporters with an unaccustomed deference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Spin Control | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get—this is what too many of you seem to forget. “Coleridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...Brock the Jock, O’Tooley’s flamboyant football-playing roommate, demonstrated Lawler’s ability to poke fun at athletes. Luckily, the droll portrayal of a sportsman didn’t reduce the team’s enjoyment of the show...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawler Makes Magic in Pool, On Stage | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get—this is what too many of you seem to forget. “Coleridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

...sense of Alex Bogusky's droll perspective when he hands you his business card. It has one rounded corner and reads, "25% safer than most other business cards." It's a little impish, yes, but also engaging, like the offbeat advertising campaigns dreamed up at Bogusky's Miami firm, Crispin Porter & Bogusky. That's the company, after all, that created the Subservient Chicken, Burger King's bizarre chicken-sandwich mascot. The online ad features an actor in a chicken suit and a garter belt who will do just about anything visitors to the site demand (short of poultry porn). Designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Marketing: What's Next After That Odd Chicken? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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