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...year is 1991. Grunge is taking an unsuspecting nation by storm in a whirlwind of angst and flannel. Teenagers everywhere are picking up second-hand instruments, penning songs on the perils of adolescence and getting into arguments with band mates. Brown graduate Damian Kulash is no exception...
...believe I ate the whole thing. Flick your Bic. I love New York. It's not Shakespeare, but advertising in the '60s seemed to fuel the Zeitgeist as much as movies or music. The slogans above were the work of Mary Wells Lawrence, the original girl in the gray flannel skirt, the first woman president of a big Madison Avenue firm. Wells was the godmother of a style of advertising that was witty, irreverent and anti-authority. Her memoir, A Big Life, tells the tale of her agency, Wells Rich Greene; her ardent wooing of clients; her even more ardent...
Muirhead told FM that, outside of class, he dresses “badly; in jeans and t-shirts with the occasional flannel flourish...
Standing before a meeting of his neighbors and staff from Cambridge’s community development agency, a bearded man in a green flannel shirt picked up his accordion and sang a song...
Besides, men are frustrated that we don't have our own Oprah. Ours are all embarrassing flameouts like Robert Bly, or the Promise Keepers, or Al Gore the week that Naomi Wolf made him wear flannel. The best we have right now are Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel of The Man Show, and those guys wouldn't even be able to fill out their live audience if they didn't liberally sprinkle the studio with pole dancers...