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More important, there's something offensive and embarrassing about the way Marshall fulfilled the Cleveland woman's fantasy. He led her to the Fantasy booth, a somewhat enlarged telephone booth hat blows air from its base and thus floats hundreds of dollars within he participant's reach. While the audience cheered, the Cleveland woman spent her fifteen seconds grabbing as much money as she would. Although she snared $900-not a small sum-one remembers her almost pathetic efforts, bending over when her time ended so as not to lose an extra bill or two that had landed...
...organizer of College Expo is New York City-based Metacorp, which licensed the festival's name from Playboy Enterprises in 1981. Metacorp helps advertisers by staffing the booths, hiring bands and handling other logistics. President Steven Berkowitz, 25, figures that Metacorp's revenues from providing these services will be $7 million this year, up from $1 million in 1981. "The clients obviously think it works," he says. "They come back every year with bigger budgets." Even the U.S. Army had a booth at MusicFest, where recruiters answered 1,250 inquiries...
...garish polyester pants suit, she layers on the lipstick and tells Jackie, "Why don't you stop wearing those ridiculous clothes, you can't change who you are." American politicians fare no better in Armstrong's vision. One of the film's best moments features a maniacal sound booth engineer presiding over a chaotic television set and screaming. "I am in control here. I am in control...
...Crimson does, is nothing less than offensive. Legal registration seems to fall more under the rubric of "democratic process" than of "tactics...strictly of the old-fashioned machine type." The people of Chicago did not vote for Washington because they were "infirmed" (sic) or guided to the voting booth by precinct captains...
...assorted characters begin to complain about the things they find offensive and finally conclude, "My gosh...LIFE is offensive!!" (Opus the Penguin then notes that they are suffering from "offensensitivity") You might also take a look at the latest issue of Daedalus in which Stanley Fish and Wayne C. Booth debate with considerably subtletythe question of how one decided whether a humorist is being ironic or merely offensive-as exemplified in Randy Newman's famous line. "Short people got no reason to live." Then you can search for a totally inoffensive "cartoon replacement" for Bloom County and Doonesbury in good...