Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertising industry, small shops are thinking big these days. Fast- moving and feisty, the upstarts are luring a growing share of blue-chip accounts away from the Madison Avenue behemoths. While agencies like Manhattan's Young & Rubicam (1987 billings: $4.9 billion) and London's Saatchi ) & Saatchi ($4.6 billion) have tried to dominate the business by taking over competitors, firms less than one-tenth their size are attracting large ad accounts to such off-the-avenue cities as Boston and Minneapolis. In mid- August the Richards Group of Dallas ($97 million) snared the $15 million account for the Long John Silver...
...days," bristles a former editor who was fired shortly after Wintour arrived. Wintour explains that rather than showing "empty rooms," she prefers to bring in the feeling of people. "Dramatic environments reflect strong personalities," she says, sitting behind the stark black desk in her chic but minimalist Madison Avenue office...
...native of nearby Glencoe, Dann was suspected by authorities in a 1986 ice- % pick attack on her estranged husband, although she was never charged. The FBI wanted to question her about making threatening telephone calls, and in March she had been picked up in Madison, Wis., for shoplifting. On Friday morning Dann delivered poisoned food to several homes and college fraternities. She then set fire to a house where she had worked as a baby- sitter, temporarily trapping her former employer and two children in the basement (they escaped by smashing a window). Dann drove six blocks to the school...
Jones' surprise announcement came one day before the Celtics meet the New York Knicks in the third game of their playoff series. Boston leads, 2-0, and can wrap the series up tonight (Ch. 56, 7:30 p.m.) with a victory at Madison Square Garden...
...official warming trend even revived the often sleepy U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, a group of 315 U.S. companies and 150 Soviet enterprises and ministries, which staged a four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse...