Word: walkerism
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...window in the pursuit of victory. Given the task of selling lemonade on the streets of New York, the female team wore extra tight shirts and included complimentary kisses on the cheek with every glass. When challenged to boost sales at Planet Hollywood, the women again fetched the street-walker wear out of their wardrobes and begged men on the street to buy them shots inside the restaurant. When presenting a new advertising approach for an airline, they photographed the jets as phallic symbols and used ad slogans alluding to the size of the fliers’ manhood. From their...
...J.F.O. McAllister, Bruce Crumley, Steven Frank, Jeff Israely and Jane Walker...
What Soth, 34, found along the Mississippi was a full range of fugitive atmospheres and human eccentricities. The mood in his pictures can be drowsy, lonely, lyrical and sometimes just a bit surreal. He works within the great tradition of personal documentary that stretches from Walker Evans through Robert Frank to Soth's teacher, Joel Sternfeld. Though that tradition was pushed aside somewhat by the postmodern antics of the 1980s and the digitally manipulated images of the '90s, Soth's pictures are proof of its enduring strength and ragged glories...
Admittedly, walking lacks glamor; on the coolness scale of leisure-time activities, it ranks somewhere between pinochle and shuffleboard. When you try to conjure a mental image of a walker, you do not see Britney Spears. You see an Englishwoman of a certain age wearing oxfords and a shapeless cardigan, carrying a birding book and a pair of binoculars. It’s also true that history’s more famous walks—like that of Captain Laurence Oates who, crippled by frostbite and concerned he was weighing down Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expedition, told...
Nearly a hundred primed and ready rock climbers gathered in MIT’s Walker Memorial Hall on Saturday to compete in the third annual MIT Bouldering Competition...