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...praise gay men. Armed with tierce wigs, dangerous pumps, elegant gowns, and daggered puns (sounds a bit like Stonewall, n'est-ce Pas?), the Hasty Pudding's Romancing the Throne has achieved a monument to camp, a piercingly funny edifice to the fine art of bombastic play. I do not mean to imply that gay is camp is gay (or even, God forbid, that the Hasty Pudding is gay). But gay men have always had a particular propensity for camp, and if this year's show is any indication, gay men still contribute a great deal to the preservation...
...opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber's campaign fizzled soon thereafter. Still, Silber's message, though transformed somewhat, has survived...
TIME: SATURDAYS, 8 P.M. EST...
Before the visit, one more-than-slightly-misinformed Boston Globe writer called Andover one of the oldest (est. 1778), preppiest bastions of WASP hood in the country, a place where future Republicans are hatched...
...week, a pumped-up Peter Sealey, Coke's director of global marketing, said, "It was a seminal moment, like the first sustainable nuclear reaction." Maybe so, but this time it was Madison Avenue that was feeling the heat. After relying on New York's respected McCann-Erickson advertising agency (est. 1992 billings: $6 billion) for nearly 40 years, Coca-Cola had taken the unprecedented step of seeking outside help for its new campaign, tapping Creative Artists Agency, the movie industry's top talent shop. To the ad industry's dismay, nearly all the new commercials introduced last week were produced...