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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still, ethics have not stopped many companies from jumping on the patriotism bandwagon. Most notably and perhaps least surprisingly, airlines were among the first to equate buying their products with defending the American way. Car companies (i.e. General Motors’ “Keep America Rolling” ad campaign) and fashion companies (i.e. Polo’s montages of very attractive models with highly patriotic music in the background) followed suit immediately...
...managed to splash a bit of that color around her room with stylish knowhow. A random assortment of pop postcards are displayed among cultured pictures of her favorite arists including Man Ray and Klimt. There is a Brattle Theater schedule and ads from recent Dolce and Gabbana ads (Agnes was intrigued by the way the ad campaign changed from season to season—black and white photos of exotic women one minute and technicolor Westernized shots the next) On the personal side, Agnes keeps a picture of her boyfriend and her name written in Chinese characters at eye level...
...they wrote urging that any woman vaguely associated with Wellesley “boycott sex with Harvard students, faculty, administrators and anyone else vaguely associated with the school until the magazine prints an apology for the article.” The next week, we received a letter from an ad hoc organization of civic-minded MIT students who offered to pick up the slack until that apology was forthcoming...
...most irritating aspect of our work was that the operations manager (whose name escapes me) never seemed to think it important that the What? actually get delivered to all the places our hardworking ad guy, Barry, told advertisers the magazine would be delivered. Those to whom the business staff felt like delivering the What? seemed to enjoy it. A word of advice: don’t ever hire anyone with an SAT score greater than 1400 to be a paperboy...
...course, we’re talking just friendly joshing. (A little incident involving a prank call, Room 13, Yale, and the Ad Board reminded us of that—but that’s another story.) Which is why Lisa and I were darn lucky to have AE Michael Colton ’97 on board. Who’s Michael? These days, he works running some little project called Modern Humorist (www.modernhumorist.com). But more importantly, he’s the man, the myth, and the legend behind the original Gossip Guy, a safe forum for mocking Harvardians for five...