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...subtle, but the message sticks. At stores where kids received free samples of V8 Splash Fruit Medley, it became the top-selling flavor, according to Field Trip Factory. In another case, sales of children's toothpaste shot up 18%. "These field trips are nothing more than a way to clobber a captive audience of impressionable children with ads," says Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a watchdog group. But Abbie Levi, whose daughter Sarah asked for a hamster after attending the Petco field trip, says simply, "Parents have the power to say no." Easier said than done. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Brand-Name Field Trips | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...doctors, the hatred of the rich for the poor and, in the relationship of Reagan's character Drake McHugh and his friend Parris (Robert Cummings), a hint of homoeroticism. Reagan flawlessly navigates Drake's descent from rube bonhomie to maturing resolve to blackest despair, then up to a final splash of sunlight. Reagan considered the film his top accomplishment and never tired of screening it. In 1948 Wyman sued for divorce, charging extreme mental cruelty. But she had another complaint: "I just couldn't stand to watch that dismal Kings Row one more time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Days in Hollywood: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...versions of the song, including on an album called ?Do the Twist With Ray Charles? - should have led the singer into more, much more of the same. It would, but later. Now he had bigger ambitions (as his label-mate, Bobby Darin, would in segueing from the rockin? ?Splish Splash? to the Sinatraesque ?Mack the Knife?). Charles issued his really-big-band LP, ?The Genius of Ray Charles? (with arrangements by Ralph Burns and the young Quincy Jones). The set teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Genie | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...created such a splash that references to it have become integrated in campus lingo and culture...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Internet Boosts Social Scene | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...city tossed themselves off the vertiginous diving platform, their tiny bodies tumbling through the air at up to 60 km/h. The girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit with high-cut legs and a splash of sequins on the rear. One day, they might have been dreaming, they too could rise above the state and blossom into an exquisitely modern Chinese sports star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Heroes to Brands | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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