Word: sells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With Juxtapose, Tricky is positioning himself to appeal to mainstream U.S. hip-hop crowd. It's going to be a tough sell, though: Tricky's hip-hop resembles little else on the market. He's an extraordinarily versatile musician; while he may not always be palatable, he's certainly interesting, and you can't say that he doesn't put on a good show. Avalon unfortunately marred the ending of his show: the lights went up during the second encore, halfway through a terrific rendition of "Vent." Next time, maybe, they'll let him finish...
...Guys are a bit easier to sell to than girls," Haynie says. "Girls think about it more...
...shirts aren't licensed by Major League Baseball, and the Red Sox won't sell them because, according to one of the bosses of Yankees Suck, "they won't let us say 'suck' with a major league team." The Yankees haven't signed off either, and one of the shirt vendors says he's "sure the Yankees will be calling us soon...
Social Security surplus? By law, it is invested in special government bonds. (Even if there is no deficit, the government still must issue bonds to replace ones that mature.) So the Social Security trust fund will add $150 billion to its collection of government bonds, and the government will sell $150 billion less to the public...
...1950s, when the hard sell was hard to avoid, Stan Freberg came along to show Madison Avenue that the commercial could be a miniature work of art--and sometimes of daring. Freberg pitched Meadowgold milk in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, hawked Pittsburgh paints with a takeoff on Moby Dick, and decked out Ann Miller with a Busby Berkeley chorus line to trumpet Heinz's Great American Soups. He produced radio ads for the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to end the Vietnam War and, perhaps even gutsier, persuaded Pacific Airlines to let him do a series of ads poking...