If you call your event "ECO-Challenge," the last thing you want is bands of environmentalists waving angry,
in-your-face placards for the TV cameras at the starting line.
This is a government," he said, "not performing the minimal requisite essential to government, and is, where it shouldn't be, radically obtrusive and obnoxious and
in-your-face about matters that are none of its business.
ClickZ Specifics: E-mail Marketing attracted marketers seeking to learn from experts who have successfully leveraged this immediate, inexpensive, and
in-your-face application.
On the other hand, more energetic physical and
in-your-face comedy was vivified in the '40s and '50s by carrot-topped Danny Kaye, who sent audience members rolling in the aisle with his gung-ho, all-out,
in-your-face humor, in memorable cinematic vehicles like The Inspector General and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Under Saddam, though we had a tyrannical government, homosexuals were allowed some sexual freedom, a certain tolerance in Baghdad, as long as it was not an
in-your-face sexuality.
Some are offended by his
in-your-face personality, but the straight-talkin' Texas with Brokeback Mountain-good looks is tender enough to cry (before he won the speedskating 5,000 meter gold).
A subway station segment with dancer Shane Sparks presents different dance styles, including the aggressive,
in-your-face form known as krumping.
It wasn't designed to be an
in-your-face kind of thing.
Blige, Mos Def and Prince are snapped by a host of photographers who capture both the
in-your-face attitude and rhythm of a culture and a generation that speak volumes.
And last, but not least, the audience roared with laughter at the staggering social comment of festival favourite Michael Moore's
in-your-face but indispensable documentary Bowling for Columbine, winner of the Audience Award.
And now here it was: palpable,
in-your-face evidence of the existence of people unlike ourselves, people who were, in fact, murderously hostile to us and clever enough to eclipse even Chandra.
Joseph's Health Centre in Hamilton, whose earlier invitation to Clinton had been opposed by Catholic pro-lifers (see our June editorial), published an
in-your-face, eight-page supplement to the National Post with a large photo of Clinton and a thank you across the bottom quarter of its front page.
In the 2nd edition of his very instructive book, On the Art of Writing Copy, direct marketing expert Herschell Gordon Lewis writes that the web and special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's lurid report on President Clinton's "peccadilloes" are among the influences that have made public discourse more informal, coarse, and
in-your-face.
However, NetSlaves'
in-your-face attitude about the New Economy--some of which is quite entertaining--can't mask the ambition of Steve Baldwin and Bill Lessard, the site's founders, to be successful Web entrepreneurs.
Her attitude is as
in-your-face as the hip-hop music of the soundtrack.