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...ubiquitous a media sensation was Fawcett in that year of grace that she was written into magazine pieces on utterly unrelated topics. A June 1977 TIME cover story on the health boom began with this larkish "BULLETIN: Noted Physical Fitness Enthusiast Farrah Fawcett-Majors will appear in the tenth, 20th and 30th paragraphs of this article, jogging nude around the Central Park Reservoir, pausing every 50 yards to give a demonstration of rope-skipping. Aerobics points will be awarded to readers." The same summer, New Times magazine put her on the cover with the tagline: Absolutely Nothing in This Issue...
Military camo went mainstream after a hunting enthusiast named Jim Crumley used a Magic Marker to draw vertical tree-trunk lines on a few pairs of tie-dyed coats and pants in the late 1970s. A decade and two mortgages later, his patented "Trebark" design had gone from being featured in a few small ads in Bowhunter magazine to appearing in nearly every major outdoors catalog in the country. When Manuel Noriega, wearing Trebark gear, finally surrended to U.S. troops, Crumley reportedly toyed with the idea of using the Panamanian general in an ad campaign with the slogan "No wonder...
...while creating few scoring opportunities. The North Korean spectators were uniformed in a sea of red shirts and caps, many banging drums in disciplined, choreographed rhythm. The cameras in the stadium, wielded by the North Korean authorities, didn't reveal whether the nation's Dear Leader and known football enthusiast, Kim Jong Il, was in attendance. Advertising billboards arrayed around the pitch for the benefit of the television audience touted companies like Epson and Minolta and Emirates airlines - "Fly Emirates," read banners inside a stadium where few fans can board an airplane or will ever be permitted to leave...
Gordon, who ran freshman track at Harvard, remained a fitness enthusiast throughout his long life. He was the oldest participant in the London marathon and continued to travel to work four times a week until...
...three years, teaches four classes every year in the Ceramics Program’s satellite-studio in Quincy House, and frequently exhibits his own work on and off campus. David’s interest in ceramics began early, and he cites his high school ceramics teacher and a pottery-enthusiast neighbor as his greatest influences. “I lived in my neighbor’s pottery studio and threw on the wheel obsessively,” David says. When he was 16 he worked as an assistant in his high school ceramics studio: “My teacher really...