Word: lot
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...hard economic times, Madison Avenue is a $34 billion-a-year business. And if Martin Lindstrom - author of the best seller Buyology and a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo and Disney - is correct, trying to tune this stuff out is about to get a whole lot harder. (Watch TIME's video "Why a Baby's Laugh Will Make...
...come from a long line of people who don't care about our long line of people. Whenever I asked my grandparents where their parents were from, they'd all launch into the same speech about how Poland and Russia switched borders a lot. The only thing I got from that speech was that people do not want to admit they're Polish. Also, that making a big deal about your genealogy isn't for Jews; it's for Wasps and Southerners and Democrats and other groups whose past is brighter than their future...
...later, when Reuben's dad was looking to get the rest of the family out of Russia, he sent family members to scout out New York, Brazil and Argentina and wound up ditching my great-grandfather and taking his eight other kids to Argentina, where they made a lot more money than their American siblings. All my cousins there are rich artists. Which means, according to everything I know about family histories, my son will become a rich artist, and his baby Argentine cousins will grow up to be drug-addict slackers...
Maybe Lee didn't follow the rules in terms of patronage and genuflecting in the right direction. He had a point of view that probably didn't always fit in. But I don't think he spent a lot of time trying to impress the right people. I think he cared a great deal about his work and was incredibly reliable in that regard...
...placed arts in the context of a lot of different things,” Elkin said after the speech. “It was really hard to tell from his answer what specifically was their plan for the arts...