Word: giant
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...Hong Kong without the veneer of British order, capitalism out of control. This is the world of money, money, money; a city that never sleeps, with dress shops open at midnight and vendors hawking at dawn. No wonder its presiding genius is Deng Xiaoping, smiling down from a giant mural...
Drabinsky, 47, a stocky man with a thick head of hair and a giant limp (a remnant of childhood polio), grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Toronto, and abandoned a law career to build the Cineplex Odeon movie-theater chain (from which he was ousted in a corporate coup). He is well known, and sometimes disliked, for his outsize ego and strong hand in the creative process. "If you're respected, it's a collaboration," he says. "If there's no respect...
LONDON: McDonald's libel case against two leaflet-distributing vegetarians ended in victory today after a judge ruled their criticism of the burger giant amounted to slander. The lawsuit, the longest ever waged in an English court, was directed against two members of the left-wing group London Greenpeace (not related to Greenpeace International) who handed out anti-McDonald's pamphlets outside its restaurants in Britain. McDonald's said the pamphlets, which accuse the burger giant of pushing unhealthy food and mistreating its employees, were false and harmful to its reputation. The defendants, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, fought...
Many of the nation's biggest advertisers have a new slogan for their advertising agencies: Get Lost! Consider United Airlines, which dumped Leo Burnett, the giant Chicago agency that created one of the most memorable ad campaigns in aviation history, "Fly the friendly skies." Now it's bye-bye, friendliness--hello, hostility. United hired Minneapolis, Minn., maverick Fallon McElligott to handle the carrier's $60 million U.S. account. Fallon's in-your-face ads trash air travel, playing up canceled flights, lousy food and surly personnel. The punch line, "Rising," implies that compared with the rest of the airline industry...
...award-winning ad touts a pair of reinforced rompers by Healthtex, a leading purveyor of juvenile apparel. But the folks who dreamed up the campaign work neither on Madison Avenue nor in the giant agencies of Los Angeles or Chicago. Instead they labor in, of all places, Richmond, Va. Situated among tobacco warehouses and antiques stores, the Martin Agency was once known for regional work, such as its "Virginia is for lovers" campaign. But recently Martin snagged a $55 million account for Saab cars away from a New York City agency; Coca-Cola is another client. Billings...