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...100th birthday, this comic muralist left an inadvertent history of 20th century entertainment. For dozens of dailies and weeklies but mainly for the New York Times, Hirschfeld drew--and drew out the spirit of--virtually every celebrity from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Roberto Benigni, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and caricature met character study. The fun in a Hirschfeld sketch increased after 1945, when his daughter Nina was born. He began concealing her cognomen in and around his portraits of famous men and women--in a Gwyneth Paltrow gown, in a Groucho jacket...
...death, this comic muralist had left the fullest scrapbook of a century dominated by entertainment. He drew, and drew out the spirit of, thousands of celebrities from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Anna Magnani, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study...
...cost anywhere from €150,000 to €2 million. All the major media agencies now include wireless as part of their pitches to big corporate clients. "SMS has gone beyond the stage of quirky little campaigns to become a really valuable part of the marketing mix," says Ben Wood, a senior Gartner analyst. Coca-Cola, whose SMS campaign in Belgium increased café sales of 20-cl bottles of Coke by 8%, is preparing to launch massive SMS marketing campaigns in other European countries. And Sony Computer Entertainment Germany, which conducted an SMS marketing campaign in December to push...
Before long, Wood was a partner and vice president for sales at Under Armour. Kip Fulks, a former all-American lacrosse player at Maryland, tried on a shirt, then signed on as a partner and vice president for production. "It was like nothing I had worn before," says Fulks. "I knew it was going somewhere...
...sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...