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Episode One: (a lonely Monday morning, 2 a.m., October 1987, Winthrop House dining hall). While working on a Statistics 100 problem set, I gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine...
Until now, older characters were usually confined to commercials for digestive aids, denture creams and other products aimed at elderly consumers. But last year, when researchers at Grey Advertising examined thousands of TV commercials and print ads in a study of the mature market, they concluded that people 50 and up were "the invisible generation." Says Richard Karp, 59, executive vice president of creative services for Grey: "We discovered that a 'Methuselah Syndrome' governed the lives of people in ads. They went straight from the cute 20s to creaky old characters in their late 70s, most wearing wacky clothes. There...
...label 1989 the year of ethics," said moderator David Sand. Sand, vice-president for what he said was a "socially responsible" investment group, the Franklin Company. "Yet for all the good intentions, everyone will find the world is full of grey areas...
Across the street from the Bay Square development, a small frame house and a gas station have been replaced by 931 Mass. Ave., a tall, slate-grey condominium development...
These Californians may never get to see the two most important urban phenomena, yellow snow and grey snow, or have the somewhat dubious honor of having local brats chuck iceballs at their head...