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...didn't do much to help. At first, we felt bad for many of our male friends, appraising them and thinking to ourselves, "Gee, how is he going to look sexy?" Unable to think of an answer, we let them off, saying that "sexy is an attitude," promising to let them into our party anyway...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Try Sexy, Not Sex | 2/15/1992 | See Source »

...that Nike is a corporate giant, it still fosters the image of irreverent hipness with its striking advertising and superstar endorsers: the magical Michael Jordan, the bodacious Bo Jackson and those rebels with racquets, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi. The authors tell this tale with a mixture of gee-whiz cheerleading and nostalgic regret. (Strasser is the wife of an ex-Nike executive; Becklund is her sister and a writer at the Los Angeles Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Rubber Soul | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...Gee, thanks, guys--I was in danger of forgetting the plight of the blue whale until you thoughtfully reminded me. Or maybe the proceeds go to Greenpeace...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Just Don't Eat the Soap! | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

...everyone is swept up in the excitement. A review in the trade publication Advertising Age, while admiring the special effects, argues that the commercial's hyperkinetic promotional jingle "obscures the lyrics and thus also the explanation for why -- apart from sheer gee-whizardry -- Cagney, Satchmo and Bogart are resurrected." In short, it's not enough for commercials to showcase creativity -- they've got to move the goods as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Ghosts in the Commercial | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Duke? A more talented team? Gee, thanks for letting us know...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Hey Coach K., Lighten Up | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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