Word: pr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frazier is the Othello and the takers, that vast locust combine, play Iago. The prefight publicity has made it impossible for Frazier ever to be champ to black America and the rest of the world. Rather than revealing him as another black man of different convictions from Ali, the PR portrayed him as a vacuous white hope in blackface...
Sitting cross-legged in an Arab tent, the guest of honor munched on a hunk of roast lamb as a local entertainer offered animal imitations. "Monsieur le Président, I'm a cock," the man announced, crowing convincingly. "Monsieur le Président, now I'm a dog," he then barked. As the guest sipped Coca-Cola and Evian water, a group of Moorish women serenaded him in Arabic: "De Gaulle entrusted his testament to Georges Pompidou. Welcome." Thus did the 200 guests at a meshwi, an Arab-style barbecue, greet France's President...
...anyone at Harvard actively conceals administrative decisions but there is obviously a lack of active explanation of these decisions to the university community. Some people seem to have the idea that their jobs are easier when they do not have to discuss them publicly." He adds, though, that good PR men won't solve everything...
...hesitates to call it a culture ) and is quite willing to use his razz-ma-tazz prose to further his subjects' own ends. He's caught on to the fact that the most revealing documentation of modern day America is carried on through the voice of the press release. (PR, you may remember, was even invented by an American, Cambridge's own Edward Bernays.) So when Wolfe takes off on his great tirades of trade names and trivia, the neon flashing in his eyes, the fury of apocalypse heavy on his breath, he becomes our twentieth-century Walt Whitman singing...
...their public careers were not enough, Du Pré and Barenboim are the magnetic center for a clubby group of musical jet-setters known affectionately and with some envy as the "musical mafia." It consists of Ashkenazy, Violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman, plus Mehta, who is reliably reported to play a mean double bass. The group meets four or five times a year to play chamber music. "We are more than friends," says Mehta. "If there could be something like a family outside a family, that's what we have...