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...feminist adherence to pro-abortion ideology is relatively recent. FFL notes that all of the founders of the feminist movement, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the first woman to run for president, Victoria Woodhull (who ran in 1872), vehemently opposed abortion...
...create an art playground," says Chris Wink, one of the three 30-year-old New Yorkers who formed Blue Man Group in 1988. Their backgrounds are as unexpected as the show. Wink, who used to write synopses of articles for a Japanese magazine, dubs himself a "disillusioned futurist." Phil Stanton was a drummer and an aspiring actor who met Wink when they worked together for a catering company. Matt Goldman, a high school friend of Wink's, got an M.B.A. and worked as a computer-software producer before joining the group...
...time when advertising firms are struggling through the third year of the worst slump to hit the industry in more than a decade, account reviews have become a harrowing aspect of business as usual, one that some agency people call the "dance of death." Observes Frank Stanton, the former chairman of Simmons Market Research Bureau: "Pandemonium is a good word to describe the business now." Shaken by the instability in the industry, many agencies are only making the problem worse by retreating to ideas that seem safe -- but that may bore consumers and further alienate clients...
...growing feeling among advertisers and retailers that the selling job should be done predictably through the weight of money rather than speculatively through the employment of imagination." As a result, Mayer has said, agencies are in danger of turning into little more than "vendors competing on price." Stanton of Simmons Research agrees: "Agencies are being used like travel agents, who work to get the client the cheapest flight and get paid less for their pains...
...Pine Grove is as spare as the decor. There are no foreign- language classes or organized sports, virtually no music or art. Current events receive minimal classroom attention. Savage is the first to concede that she has not yet figured out how to operate the Apple computer that Ronnie Stanton, Wendy's father, donated to the school a few years back. But no . matter. "We want the basics, and it's working," says Stanton. "Our kids come out of the country school into the town high school way advanced. It's the one-on-one attention." This can cut both...