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...That's deliberate as well. The campaign is the work of Wink Media, the hot new London ad agency that's an offshoot of our sister publication Wallpaper*. One of the biggest challenges facing Wink was that just about everybody knows Time. The magazine has been around for 78 years and has become journalism's equivalent of a global brand. Wink's solution was to have some fun. "The aim of the campaign is to promote the magazine's expanded coverage of style, technology, science and business in a fresh, witty and unexpected way," says Keith White, Wink's development...
...Chris Wink...
...that his movies-especially the ones he writes himself-offer all the complexity of a dime-store novel. The fairly primitive characters in Desperado, after all, only really exist inasmuch is necessary to allow Rodriguez to string-together and stage his elaborate action set-pieces. It hardly matters one wink, however, because the whole movie is so intoxicated by its own style that its verve and kinetic energy become utterly infectious-each gunshot is like a jolt of adrenaline. The special-effects laden spectacle of Spy Kids, on the other hand, cannot fall back on the natural buzz of stylish...
Television makes coverage of the Oscar parties seem so easy. It can flit from lavish bash to lavish bash in the wink of a mascaraed eye. But for the humble reporter in Hollywood (a dying species of which I'm clearly not a member) it is a little harder. One has to pick a maximum of two or three events per 24-hour party cycle and hope that those chosen soirées will yield moments that reflect the industry's celebrations. You might not be at the Vanity Fair party at the precise moment when Russell Crowe finally encounters...
...progressivism, Harvard has lost the characteristic alumni-student back-scratching that made this place so special from the first. Sure, students will always be able to expect a solid education and an impressive diploma from Harvard. But 50, 40, even 30 years ago, they could also expect a wink and a nudge when it came to employment as well...