Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...line: "If their Daddies could buy them Mercedes CLKs, so could yours." The ad only ran once; Mercedes dealerships were flooded with so many vituperative phone calls and all-caps e-mails that the CEO immediately cancelled its run. Mothers angrily denounced the luxury car company for sending the wrong message to their daughters. Fathers didn't appreciate being portrayed as assholes who buy their daughters affection with pricey gifts. And most offended, of course, were the "Daddy's Girls" themselves who found that the ad hit too close to home. The problem, of course, is that the creators...
...wrong, Midler sounds good. She's a diva in every sense of the word. And God knows she looks good on the album cover. Forget the bulk she carried as Brenda in The First Wives Club. But don't expect the raucous ditties that made her a favorite at the San Francisco bathhouses in the '70s. No "Otto Titsling" or "Knights in Black Leather" on this album. And don't hope for the poignancy of the For the Boys soundtrack, either. Well-done covers of "Shining Star" and "Just My Imagination" are the closest Midler comes to the emotional...
...Everything I know about journalism I learned from The Harvard Crimson, so everything that went wrong is all their fault," Rich said...
...things went terribly wrong. We can see hints of the impending disaster in some of the film's pre-Altamont footage: raging groupies attack Mick Jagger; backstage, suits furiously try to exploit the potential of the upcoming San Francisco concert at any expense (in one particularly chilling moment, one lawyer makes the ominous prediction, "It'll be like lemmings...
...Clinton's diplomatic team adamantly defends its strategy. "Those people who think that the peace process doesn't work or is flawed or is the problem, I think they're dead wrong," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tells TIME. But should the U.S. now step aside and let another broker try his hand at negotiating a peace, say U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan or the European Union? The Palestinians would like to internationalize future negotiations, believing they would get a better hearing from other middlemen, but Israel deeply distrusts the U.N. or European intermediaries. "We are the only country that...