Word: texts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum's curators are eager to convince you of the seriousness of their enterprise, and some of the text panels read like term papers. Ignore them; play hooky in your trash-collector's soul. Enter phone booth-shaped screening rooms to watch clips from All About Eve or Mary Tyler Moore's last episode with commentary from Directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Jay Sandrich. Model costumes of the stars, like Marilyn Monroe's dress from The Seven Year Itch, before a fun-house mirror. Lay your own sound effects over the dialogue of a TV commercial or movie clip. Browse...
Marius' error ironically occured while he gave samples of plagiarism for students to evaluate, when he confused the name of a primary source with the author's first name while reading the text...
...nightly stream of wisecracks from Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman -- and the candidates themselves. Tongue-in-cheek self- deprecation has become a favorite rhetorical tactic. Dukakis initiated it at a Democratic luncheon before his acceptance speech in Atlanta, joking that his wife had fallen asleep while reading the text. Bush's own acceptance speech was peppered with such put-downs as "I'll try to be fair to the other side; I'll try to hold my charisma in check." The aim is both to lower expectations and defuse the critics with humor. But does anybody want Rodney Dangerfield...
...Takeshita labeled his visit a "new starting point" in Sino-Japanese affairs. This blossoming of good feeling ends, for the moment at least, a period of bickering between the Asian powers that dates back to 1986. The fractiousness was spurred by several issues, ranging from a new Japanese history text that glossed over Tokyo's atrocities in China before and during World War II to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's controversial 1987 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial for Japanese war dead. As recently as last April, Japanese Land Agency Director General Seisuke Okuno unleashed a flood...
...firm's winners was an ad for a pregnancy-prevention campaign that portrays an expectant teenager under the line, "If you're embarrassed by a pimple, try explaining this." A reason for the agency's success, says its chairman, Patrick Fallon, is that only one creative director reviews all text and designs. By comparison, submitting an idea to the management committee at a big agency, Fallon says, is like "having your work bitten to death by ducks...