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NEWS ABOUT: body paint

body paint stories: 4 news summaries

Airline Uses Naked Staff for In-Flight Safety Vid

'Bare Essential of Safety' also a viral video hit

Jul 3, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a marketing campaign featuring staff in body-paint facsimiles of their uniforms, Air New Zealand is applying its revealing approach to the in-flight safety video as well, the New Zealand Herald reports. “The Bare Essentials of Safety” aims to recapture the attention of passengers who often ignore the mandatory... More »

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airline industry • New Zealand • airline • Air New Zealand • body paint

Airline Pitches the Really Friendly Skies

Let-it-all-hang-out Air New Zealand won't nickel-and-dime you

May 17, 09 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - To tout its distaste for hidden fees, Air New Zealand is mounting a tasteful display—of nudity. The airline's new commercial features employees wearing nothing but body paint, the Boston Globe reports. The campaign, called “Nothing to Hide,” touts the now-antiquated practice of providing meals and not... More »

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Air New Zealand • air travel • body paint • hidden fees • television advertising • singles

OPINION

 Wacky Garb Key to Conventions


Aug 30, 08 8:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Political die-hards flock to conventions in outlandish costumes, temporary tattoos, and head-to-toe buttons—“as much red, white and blue as possible in a patriotic arms race,” Robin Givhan writes in the Washington Post. Yet these goofy fans are integral to the messy, democratic process—by making it... More »

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Democratic National Convention • audiences • body paint • convention • costume • Republican National Convention

Earliest Humans Put a Shrimp
on the Barbie

'Mother of all' ice age survivors roasted shellfish at the beach

Oct 18, 07 1:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Remnants of one of the earliest known human settlements, possibly the community from which all modern people are descended, have been discovered on the South African coast. The band of humans survived 164,000 years ago on cooked shellfish and the occasional whale, and wore red body paint, according to... More »

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South Africa • Indian Ocean • Journal Nature • Pinnacle Point • Mossel Bay • body paint • stone blades • glacial period • progenitor population • Nature

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