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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During many of the activities, popular culture and its advertising engine ultimately emerged as the villainous culprits of the night. Striking against the Gap, L'Oreal, Gillete and other companies that play to female image insecurities in order to sell products, students met on Monday to create anti-advertising murals. Over 20 women defaced the super-thin, scantily clad models on the covers of Glamour and Cosmo, devising their own sardonic captions, such as "from the files of the incredible shrinking woman...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond Domestic Violence: Taking Back Night and Day | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

During many of the activities, popular culture and its advertising engine ultimately emerged as the villainous culprits of the night. Striking against the Gap, L'Oreal, Gillete and other companies that play to female image insecurities in order to sell products, students met on Monday to create anti-advertising murals. Over 20 women defaced the super-thin, scantily clad models on the covers of Glamour and Cosmo, devising their own sardonic captions, such as "from the files of the incredible shrinking woman...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: More Than a Week-Long Project: Taking Back Night and Day | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...shifts nicely from a light, even funny naturalism, into a more poetic and ultimately more troubling tone, never glamorized and always compelling. It's definitely more than a dismissive wave at two filles paumees, and the precise details of life on les limites (e.g. cutting out magazine pictures to sell as postcards) fuel nobler purposes. I suppose the film could lose some minutes, but, come on, cut Zonca some slack...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wings of Desire: Zonca Is A Good Guy | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...MovieFone Inc. has announced it will sell customers tickets to "Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace" starting in 18,720 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Minutes | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

When it comes to selling your home, brokers have always insisted they can get you the highest price. That's right--almost. According to a study by Penn State professor Abdullah Yavas, they sell their own houses for an average of 3% more than they get for their clients. That difference may not mean a lot on a standard 6% commission, but it could help fatten your bottom line. So the next time a broker is putting your home on the market, tell her to price it as she would her own--just a bit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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