(Mr. Adams and the set designer David Korins collaborated on the spectacular wall of neon advertising the dazzling allurements of Europe.) Some episodes are more engaging than others — the romances feel a bit pro forma to me — but the musical is bound together by the eloquence and power of the songs, played by the skilled onstage band.
By the time you read this, the Olympic Torch may – or may not – have ascended to the top of Mt Everest, as crass a waste of human endeavour as you could hope to see outside the walls of an advertising agency.
The fall promises to bring wall-to-wall advertising.
Bernard T. Flanagan was named to the new position of vice president of marketing of Dow Jones; Paul Atkinson to vice president of advertising for The Wall Street Journal; Robert D. Higgins to director of advertising administration for The Wall Street Journal, and James Friedlich to director of international sales and marketing for Dow Jones Publications.
But Mead rushes away from her most incisive thoughts — about the way wedding photos, propped up on office and living-room walls, serve as a kind of advertising campaign for the marriage in question, about how weddings became splashier and more expensive just as no-fault divorce made marriage a less secure proposition than ever before.
A painted mural from decades ago graces a brick wall of the historic keg house, advertising the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company.
Newspapers for years have run special sections to appeal to advertisers, and almost all of the publishers running branded content say they abide by the traditional church-and-state separation — news on one side of the wall, advertising on the other.
JR told me, "The fact that people can actually reappropriate their walls for their own messages at the scale of advertising — this is what I am working on.
For example, instead of advertising Fox programs on the stadium walls during its broadcast of the World Series, Fox might advertise DirecTV, Mr. Greenfield suggested.
Other areas have an eye-popping mix of carpet patterns, all taken from past examples in the store, a lineup of newspapers with the original Galeries Lafayette advertising and a wall of framed famous faces, as if in a bar.
