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- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: Business Notes:Advertising
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 58
- Business Notes
- ADVERTISING
- Now the Wall's A Billboard
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- <p> Advertisers, who know a trendy location when they see one,
- are flocking to Berlin. The Wall has become a potent new symbol
- in a plethora of TV commercials celebrating its opening.
- Pepsi-Cola filmed an ad that features a young woman handing a
- flower to a border guard. Quintessence, a Chicago cosmetics
- firm, taped a 30-second corporate ad depicting a family reunion
- at the Brandenburg Gate. AT&T interviewed people at the Wall who
- told how they phoned friends when it opened.
- </p>
- <p> The Berlin commercials are among an outpouring of ads in
- which Western businesses seem to be welcoming Eastern Europe
- into the capitalist world. A Shearson Lehman Hutton commercial
- shows Slavic women wearing U.S. running shoes and a teenager
- riding a skateboard past a hammer-and-sickle sculpture. The
- tactics have even been adopted by the other side: one of the
- products to extol improved East-West relations in its ads is
- Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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