Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more fragmented competition among eight or ten networks (both broadcast and cable) of nearly equal size. More radical transformations may be in store. Tom Winner, executive vice president and media director for Campbell-Mithun-Esty advertising, predicts that the networks "will ultimately be program services selling product to the highest bidder" -- station groups, cable, home video or satellite companies...
...refreshing to hear any Stones product that's this good, so good that it makes you wonder why all the Stones albums since the excellent Some Girls 10 years ago have been so lame. Maybe Richards needed to escape from the restrictions of the Stones' marathon studio sessions and ego circuses in order to stretch and flex his musical muscles...
What is ominous is that Reebok ads are remarkably successful at achieving what all advertising attempts to do, namely associating a product with an identity. It's the old ploy--eat Wheaties and you'll be as bouncy and healthy as Mary Lou Retton--but it has an added twist. The U.B.U. ad campaigns refers not just to appearance or to health or to product quality. It refers to how we see ourselves as Americans. And by using sneaker. The campaign emphasized the crucially American dialectic of individual versus community. We can all wear the same sneakers, the ads tell...
...frustrated mama's boy who spent his life scorning family relations as unhappy when not downright unnatural. A product of a menage a trois who loathed his given name of George because he shared it with both a pathetic father and the self-styled musical genius who became his mother's lover. An eccentric who attributed ill health and body odor to cotton and linen clothing and advocated a wardrobe of unbleached woolen garments. A purported avatar of women's liberation who called himself a "philanderer" and preferred married women for romance. A lectern-thumping socialist who prided himself...
Part of the reason is that disqualifications have primarily been confined to other, less popular sports -- especially weight lifting and field events, like the hammer throw and shot put. But much of the shock is a by-product of the fascination with the 100-meter dash. That most elemental, primordial event is run, at least in the mind, by almost every child on earth, and its Olympic champion occupies a place of honor as the fastest man alive. He is the heir of Harold Abrahams of Chariots of Fire fame, of Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes and Carl Lewis. What other...