Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...edgy antismoking media blitz. The ads were designed not to educate teens about the health risks of smoking (they already know about that) but instead to show them that there is another group of powerful adults, in addition to their parents and teachers, that is trying to tell teens what to think about tobacco. These ads give kids a look at the cynical manipulation behind the targeting of teens by tobacco-marketing campaigns. Kids who saw these ads in Massachusetts were half as likely to smoke as others their age. This ad campaign has spread to Florida and other states...
...through my tears I realized that I'd be a fool to cede my identity on the world's most powerful medium. So I called The Singing Joel Stein to tell him "this means war/so don't let your kitten out the door." Despite my intimidation tactics, he said he wasn't willing to give up the domain name. "You could probably get joelstein.net, he offered, like some sleazy real estate agent trying to sell me a beach house 10 blocks from the ocean. This was shaping up as the greatest fight for personal identity since Senator Paul Simon showed...
...wardrobe is about as subtle as Steven Soderberg's grandstanding movie gets. As the real-life paralegal who uncovered a public-health scandal and helped win the largest civil judgment ever, Roberts gets to tell off lawyers, clerks, her decent boss (Albert Finney) and her faultless boyfriend (Aaron Eckhart) from the righteous perch of her 3-in. heels. And the bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...
Please allow my son to bring in his favorite stuffed animal, Curious George, to Show and Tell. He is in no way implying that he and the monkey share a common ancestry...
...itching to get out of the house. "I want to go back to school," he told TIME. And parents who used to warn kids of the dangers posed to eyes by various sharp objects now have, for the foreseeable future, a new and even more frightening cautionary tale to tell...