First runner-up gets the tacky but estimable Style Invitational Loser Pen. Honorable Mentions get the mildly sought-after Style Invitational bumper sticker. Winners will be selected on the basis of humor and originality. Entries must be received on or before Monday, Aug. 3. Winners will be announced three weeks from today.
Editors reserve the right to alter entries for taste, humor or appropriateness.
No purchase necessary. One Hears was written by Brian Broadus of Charlottesville. Employees of The Washington Post and members of their immediate families are not eligible for prizes. Report from Week 277, in which you were asked to offer new, exciting blurbs that would help sell classic works of film or literature to modern audiences. A young woman trying to excel in a traditionally male leadership position is persecuted, then fired.