Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clearing the bench for the next game against James Madison University, coach Carole Kleinfelder started two women from the J.V. squad, Sue Mentor and Marget Long, both of whom played the entire 50 minutes...
...Southern stores. The new chief executive officer is a third-generation Sears man. His grandfather started as a Sears plumbing and heating supply buyer in 1898, and his father was a slacks buyer in the 1940s. Brennan began his company career at 22, as a salesman in the Madison, Wis., store. Then he hopscotched to Sears outlets around the company and up through the organization. Brennan, who still wears Sears suits, is highly regarded for his drive and likable ways in a company noted for granite-like personalities...
...down. No matter. Liddy, who had become the counsel for Nixon's re-election committee as a front for his intelligence assignment, was soon asked to lay out his million-dollar operation. With handsome, 3-ft. by 4-ft. charts provided by the CIA, he readied a Madison Avenue-style presentation for Attorney General John Mitchell...
...give-them-enough-rope-to-hang-themselves thing. As a writer for The New Yorker, he has had good models, not the least of which was the subtly lethal journalism of Lillian Ross, who once dismantled Hollywood with her classic Picture. Arlen has more benign intentions toward Madison Avenue. Throughout, he keeps a civil tongue in his cheek; Thirty Seconds derives its effects from self-revealing chatter and serendipitous comedy. A production conference deals with choosing among camels, llamas and kangaroos. Then comes the grandmother problem. "It seems to me," says one executive, "we have three or four grandmothers that...
Following the production unit's caravan, Arlen discovers a secret New Jersey of suburban houses ideally suited for commercial filming. The Garden State also boasts wide-open spaces, including a rodeo grounds much used by Madison Avenue. The Jersey-born owner incongruously sports a Rocky Mountain accent and wears jeans, boots, a Western hat and a shiny red windbreaker advertising Winston cigarettes...