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Smaller agencies will feel the most pressure in the coming months as they are picked over by the giants that are out shopping. But even some of the larger agencies will doubtless hear the footsteps of cash-rich competitors. Before it is over, the current wave of consolidation in advertising may produce agencies that will dwarf even BBDO's new three-part giant. As Mary Lou Retton might put it, "Watch out, big boys...
...puts it, "There was in fact one essential principle on which cynics, metaphysicians, researchers, and ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection." This seems a rather obvious thesis to attract all the firepower that Gay devotes to it. And though it is doubtless true that Victorians in love behaved much like anyone else--lacking only the modern penchant for boasting--Gay also shows us that the Victorians and their Continental or American contemporaries were oddly different. Their new influence disturbed and bewildered them, and they often diagnosed themselves as "nervous...
Against this array, the Libyans fired the SA-5s, the Soviets' chief long- range surface-to-air missiles. Weighing about five tons apiece, the 54- ft.- long weapons are designed primarily to engage slow-moving targets like B-52 bombers. But Moscow was doubtless unhappy to note that speedy U.S. fighters could not only outmaneuver the SA-5s but also, evidently, divert them...
...convince Britons that she had told the truth about her role in the "Westland affair," a complicated brouhaha over the future of a British helicopter company that had already brought down two of her Cabinet ministers. Her voice sometimes quavering and cracking, she meticulously presented her case. "Doubtless," she admitted, "there were a number of matters which could have been handled better, and this I regret." At one point, she attributed her troubles to "a genuine difference in understanding between officials." "Resign!" shouted opposition M.P.s. "Get on with...
Perhaps the most convincing evidence is provided by the U.S. Postal Service. Electronic tracers were put on an envelope addressed to Santa Claus. The letter did not reach the North Pole, and was, in fact followed to a dumpster in Duluth, Minn. Doubtless Santa would not choose to live in a dumpster. Especially in Duluth...