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Even a careless eye will latch onto visible patriotic symbols surfacing in all the familiar places. Stars and stripes grace brick walls of campus courtyards and dangle from the windows of club buildings. In the street, pedestrians wear metallic flag pins on the lapels of their jean jackets...
...effects; aurally, this was radio?s most sophisticated show. In "Treasure Island," the second show in the series, a blind pirate approaches Jim Hawkins? inn, and for more than a minute we hear nothing but menacing footfalls, a fierce knock on the door, a rat-tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet seat, while the toilet...
Will it work? It's a tough call, since there is no identifiable Dunhill' fashion statement for young people to latch on to. But signs are encouraging. April's opening of the flagship store in London generated the requisite buzz. Guy Ritchie, also known as Mr. Madonna, wore a Dunhill' suit at his wedding. And Leymarie has already been promoted to head up Richemont's Cartier division. (Are there Cartier tongue studs in our future...
...Will it work? It's a tough call, since there is no identifiable Dunhill' fashion statement for young people to latch on to. But signs are encouraging. April's opening of the flagship store in London generated the requisite buzz. Guy Ritchie, also known as Mr. Madonna, wore a Dunhill' suit at his wedding. And Leymarie has already been promoted to head up Richemont's Cartier division. (Are there Cartier tongue studs in our future...
...wind my way through theories about the manifold forms of heaven and earth, angels and demons, right and wrong, I'm melding the sacred and the secular. A mechanical medium seems inherently irreligious. But through it, I can latch onto - or into - some version of what the Hopi call "the holy something." Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form...