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With Cleary a front-runner in the hunt for a new Harvard athletic director and a much-talked-about contender for an Olympic coaching job, Tomassoni's dream of being a head coach may not be too much further down the line...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: More Than Just a Recruiting Wizard | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...featured creatures this time are gigantic earthworms, 30 ft. long, capable of comic-alarming subterranean rapid transit (you just see this furrow moving across the desert at Road Runner speed). When they surface, they reveal trifurcated tongues, each extension ending in a funny-nasty suction cup. In other words, they are great special effects, informed by the mutant-monster tradition of '50s horror movies but satirizing that tradition in a delicate way -- neither condescending nor indulgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Whole Lot of Quaking | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield)--who with Weld is a current front-runner in winning delegates to the March 10 GOP convention--called for mandatory sentences for people who use guns in committing crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP Candidates Debate Budget | 1/19/1990 | See Source »

...Saatchi revenues increased more than elevenfold, from $62 million to $697 million. In 1986, with the $450 million purchase of the Ted Bates agency, the brothers reached their avowed goal: Saatchi & Saatchi was the world's biggest ad firm. By last year, their client billings had reached $13.5 billion (runner-up Interpublic billed $8.4 billion), and the company had offices in 58 countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sibling Setbacks | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...judges looked for ads that broke new ground. The Ally & Gargano agency's Federal Express ad shattered taboos against making fun of the customer. One runner-up, adman Hal Riney's first Bartles & Jaymes wine-cooler commercial, scored with tongue-in-cheek humility. Another winner, Wendy's 1984 "Where's the Beef?" slogan, created by Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, became a political zinger in the hands of Walter Mondale. But as the 1984 election proved, even advertising has its limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: One-Liners and Broken Taboos | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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