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...Turkey. Catching their eye means selling at bars; bars in turn influence retailers. That's why the bar show is a must for firms like White Rock Distilleries of Lewiston, Maine, which flogs such novelties as schnapps in flavors called Poison (Wild Berry) and Sting (Sour Raspberry). Because the slogan for the new line is Have You Had Your Shots Today?, samples are served by statuesque blonds in white-vinyl nurse uniforms and thigh-high stockings. The visual becomes even more apt after a slug of Poison, which tastes almost exactly like paregoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booze Blues | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...Alberta, Canada, recently ran an ad suggesting the Information Minister would make a good race commentator since "a little inaccuracy [makes] a race more exciting"; in Kuwait City, the designer boutique Villa Moda is giving away promotional T shirts that bear a picture of al - Sahhaf and the slogan "We even control fashion"; and low - cost airline Ryanair produced an advertisement suggesting that the "lowest fares" claims of its rival easyJet may be as valid as al - Sahhaf's pronouncements. Under other circumstances, al - Sahhaf might have had a career in advertising. Loan Rangers Five of Germany's banking giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil, Oil Everywhere | 4/27/2003 | See Source »

...criterion—duping a lot of people into voting for me—in the interim. Based again on significant analysis and laborious observational studies, I’ve ascertained that any successful candidate for the U.S. Senate needs three things: some popular, if patently moronic, issue or slogan, lots of money and an attractive (or, failing that, accomplished) trophy wife...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Capitol Idea | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

...issue or slogan, well, I have to consider what state I eventually want to represent. For example, if I move back to my lovely home state of Florida, my issue would probably be securing huge government benefits for Cubans and old people, placing a particular emphasis on old Cuban people. If I stay in Massachusetts, my issue would likely involve exploiting some loophole in order to use federal tax increases for the improvement of the local baseball franchise. The slogan for this initiative could be simple and stirring, speaking to the everyday man—probably some variant...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Capitol Idea | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

...year of political transition in which veteran Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will retire. Anwar's continued detention - widely decried as politically motivated - sidelines the opposition's most charismatic leader in the run-up to general elections scheduled for November 2004. meanwhile in the U.S.... A Bit Premature CNN's slogan "Be the first to know" took on new meaning when the network's website accidentally posted mock-up obituaries for luminaries including Pope John Paul II, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope - none of whom had actually died. CNN blamed human error, saying the obituaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Comeback Kid | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

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