Barbara Lippert's Critique

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These days, wireless and cellular phone ads are the ring around the collar of our times, as ubiquitous and invasive as the little mobile demons themselves. The Verizon ads feature jubilant hippies waving their arms, bringing their fingers up into ecstatic V-signs or messaging each other at amazingly cool parties.

VoiceStream ads feature Jamie Lee Curtis, a nice person, but why would watching her hang off a helicopter help me with my calling plan?

The reality is more depressing— the guy next to you in the movie has the cell phone with the “William Tell Overture” ringing inside his pants.



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