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...message was clear: the biggest trend in fashion this year might just be charity. Cole, the board chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, will debut a showstopping ad campaign next month on World AIDS Day. Other fashion insiders are on the same track. Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren held a national denim drive, targeting college campuses and challenging young Americans to help affordable-housing groups by donating old jeans. Proceeds went to Habitat for Humanity and were also raised as part of Polo's G.I.V.E. campaign (Get Involved. Volunteer. Exceed.), introduced to inspire community service through volunteerism. Other...
This time, a 10-0 run early in the second half gave Ralph Willard’s squad a 36-29 lead. The Crimson got it back within three, but three quick baskets pushed the Crusaders’ advantage to 42-33 and got the home faithful out of their seats...
...DIED. RALPH EDWARDS, 92, radio and TV pioneer dubbed the "godfather" of reality programming; in Los Angeles. As a staff announcer for CBS radio, he pitched a show around a childhood game that in 1940 gave rise to the decades-long hit Truth or Consequences. But he was most famous for another radio show he brought to TV, in 1952. On This Is Your Life, each program surprised a guest with live reminiscences from loved ones and shrewdly capitalized on the new medium's capacity for intimacy, chronicling riveting, often weepy stories of the famous (Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marilyn...
...Gleeson commandeers acting honors until the very late arrival of Ralph Fiennes as You Know Who ... He Who Must Not Be Named ... The Noseless Wonder ... Voldemort! The Tri-Wizard games that expertly filled most of the film?s time vanish from our minds when His Satanic Majesty appears to retrieve Harry for his purposes. ?Everything?s going to change now, isn?t it?? the boy-king asks later. It will. It has. In the Potter movie series, for the better...
...promotes our liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the grievous use of the motto of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”—“I am what I am”—to sell sneakers. Pseudo-sociological categories such as the “metrosexual man” are constantly invented to make consumers more...