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When they get to talking, G-men gripe about a certain goofiness in Sessions' demeanor. Gary Penrith, former chief of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, remembers briefing Sessions on a major racketeering case. Suddenly, Penrith says, Sessions burst into song, chirping the lyrics of an old advertising jingle...
Who could stop singing Don't Stop? (David Letterman's advice to Fleetwood Mac: "Stop!") That catchy jingle was the only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The...
But cities remain the cradle of civilization's creativity and ambition. To focus on the degradation is to miss the deep well of pride and determination that inspire the urban poor to better their lives. In Bombay, high school girls learn about sanitation, nutrition and immunization so that they can...
In commercials that may foreshadow yet another aspect of Bush's offerings this year, Richard Nixon in 1960 turned every question toward the strength he and Bush share -- foreign policy. Even civil rights took on a foreign dimension in Nixon's hands. "When we fail to grant equality at home...
But not 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...