When it comes to guerrilla marketing, I sat at the feet and very early in my career on the lap of a master: my old man.
Crespo might need a trawl around the Capital's second-hand record shops for his final acquisition - a copy of the Lonnie Donegan classic, My Old Man's A Dustman.
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And with my 70 year old old man, I watch Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation.
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This was my crystalline link: the old man to Ilgauskas to Dostoevsky to Russia.
Now I was standing before a man who resembled my old reflection almost exactly but who had been changed in some manner, the way a lawn under a cloudy sky changes when the sun comes out.
And I am convinced that it is -- if we do our job correctly and we, in fact, interface directly with the leadership, that there will be intense competition, there will be occasional misunderstandings, but there will not be -- my children -- my son, who is with me today, a 40-year-old man, will not, when he is my age, be looking at China as a sworn enemy.
But that "excuse me" caught my attention, and the sight of an old man steadying himself as he arose to speak.
"I've been training harder, there were a few things in my batting that I needed to control initially when I go into my innings, " said the 26-year-old, whose man of the match performances have earned him two motorcycles in four days.
One day, I found myself sitting in the bar in the Hotel Claridge with a little old man called Juan Carlos Borges, who was astonished at my interest in his work and at its success in Brazil, given that it had been years since he had published one of his brief botanical poems.
The face inside the hood was stubbled gray old man, I thought, large nose, eyes on the sidewalk but also noting my presence.
At 11 p.m. the two pulled up at a dark house with a dirt floor and no electricity--"a place I wouldn't even put my dog, " Parisi recalls. (Make that 13 dogs, all dachshunds.) A wrinkled old man came shuffling toward Parisi in the candlelight.
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