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- BUSINESS, Page 58Business NotesADVERTISINGNow the Wall's A Billboard
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- 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.
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- 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.