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...challenges of watching MTV is trying to tell the shows from the ads. The channel has always cleverly acknowledged the feedback loop between its content (music, style) and its commerce (gadgets, soft drinks, style again), and this animated spy-and-fashion spoof takes that interplay to a new level. Not only does the art look like a Bluefly.com ad, the show is also winkingly laced with faux-product plugs (like "limited-edition Stussy surveillance shades"). Alas, ironic-style porn turns out to be as tiresome as the real thing. And as a genre, spy parody is about as happenin...
Lewis sits at the heard of the 25-member Administrative Board, which is charged with disciplining undergraduates. You don't want your first encounter with Lewis to take place at an Ad Board hearing...
...Ad Board: 1. The Administrative Board of Harvard College. 2. It decides your fate if you screw up badly enough for anyone to take notice. 3. A verb: He was ad-boarded for getting really drunk and his pushing his proctor out of a fifth-floor window...
This time around, though, the ad was sponsored by a secretive tax-exempt group called Shape the Debate, which has ties to former G.O.P. California Governor Pete Wilson. Shape the Debate and its kin, including three groups tied to House G.O.P. whip Tom DeLay, don't have to disclose their donors or their spending so long as they don't say "vote for" or "vote against" a candidate. Also, they're not supposed to coordinate their work with that of a candidate...
...Democrats think there is evidence the group was illegally enmeshed with George W. Bush's campaign. They note that G.O.P. media consultant Don Sipple made the Packwood ad. Sipple has worked for Wilson and Bush and, frequently, with top Bush strategist Karl Rove. Senator John McCain had a similar experience with a different group just before Super Tuesday last March. He says he's "positive" the Bush camp was in league with the group that attacked...