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...could be a famous living woman, who would you be? I'd say Tina Turner because in Mad Max beyond Thunderdome she had this really cools crossbow thing. Hmm...no, the woman in the Timex commercial. This woman jumps out of an airplane (she's a hard-core skydiver). Her chutes don't open. She smashes into the ground form serious heights, does not die, just bruises her tailbone, and she's still jumping today. And then there's Sigourney Weaver in Alien. But I would say the Timex woman...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Profile : Hayden F. Hirschfield '98 | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...great one, wasn't it, but the Timex 1995 promises to be even better...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Gotta Love Those Weedeaters | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...Timex Indiglo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Best of 1992 | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

...message is as simple as Ivory Soap's classic "It floats." In this case, it glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Best of 1992 | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

Aside from her saves, though, Donahoe has, in every sense of the word, been an "ironwoman" for the Crimson. In fact, it is apt to compare Donahoe to a Timex watch: she takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: ALWAYS IN CONTROL | 10/23/1992 | See Source »

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