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...forget about the pernicious influence of Madison Avenue. In this hypermodern arena of hard-core capitalism, Big Business is forced to squeeze its wares into the same one-line classified ad as the rest of us. The site's internal search engine is the kind of leveling tool Karl Marx never conceived of. Ask for an automobile and eBay is just as likely to turn up your neighbors' five-year-old Pontiac as GM's latest top-of-the-range four-wheeler. The effect is as pleasing as browsing in a bookstore where new and used titles mingle democratically...
...Marx may have nixed Christmas, but he said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked...
...none of these categories appeals to you, look to classic fare, from older Disney movies to true classics like Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers. After all, marketing techniques may come and go, but Groucho endures forever...
...models displayed the fashions to music mixed by W. David Marx '01, which he described as "half stuff only I would know or have [and] half stuff people might know...
...this case, the Westerners' ignorance can be a gift. Local viewers have to juggle jagged images of a personality who is the Japanese equivalent of Groucho Marx on the small screen and Humphrey Bogart on the big one. Westerners have no vision of Takeshi the TV clown to erase before they can accept him as an existential...