On the occasion of the potential twenty-billion dollar takeover of Cadbury by Kraft — a deal that Warren Buffett doesn't like at all — the Times of London has a collection of Second World War advertisements, explaining Cadbury's place in the British national consciousness, and that of chocolate in the fight against the Axis.
(Via Light Reading) On the occasion of the potential twenty-billion dollar takeover of Cadbury by Kraft — a deal that Warren Buffett doesn't like at all — the Times of London has a collection of Second World War advertisements, explaining Cadbury's place in the British national consciousness, and that of chocolate in the fight against the Axis.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin January 20 , 2010On the occasion of the potential twenty-billion dollar takeover of Cadbury by Kraft — a deal that Warren Buffett doesn't like at all — the Times of London has a collection of Second World War advertisements, explaining Cadbury's place in the British national consciousness, and that of chocolate in the fight against the Axis.
Some years ago, my wife gave me a 1930s facsimile copy of Pickwick in its monthly instalments, complete with resonant between-the-wars advertisements ("I have used your whisky consistently for the last 25 years and do not know what I should have done without it"), but in a way it's too precious to read.
With the rise of Nazi Germany, Jewish and left-leaning directors and actors were expelled, while the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl came to international fame and were stylistically copied in several productions, especially in post-war advertisements.
The Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Le mixes photographs taken during the Vietnam War with photographs of advertisements and corporate logos to create tapestrylike weavings.
The Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, firing a new shot in an old interstate war, began putting radio advertisements on the air in California this week summoning burdened businesses his way.
For Heriberto Yepez, a leading Tijuana writer whose 2008 novel "Al Otro Lado" is set amid the city's drug culture, narcocorridos should not be defended as artistic responses to the drug war, but critiqued as advertisements for it.
Mr. Hewitt said his natural reticence had also prevented him from pursuing much television or film work, although he had done voice-over work for advertisements for "War Horse," "Other Desert Cities" and several other Broadway shows.
It turns to the latter realm in its major summer auction, a sale (on Aug. 7) that, as usual, features something for everyone: commercial advertisements, Art Nouveau, war propaganda (the startling "Prisoner of Japan!
The fight to close the plant set off a bureaucratic tussle among federal, state and local governments and a public relations war that has included advertisements calling the plant a "weapon of mass destruction".
