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...husband Boesman, projecting her will and power over him. Berry, who was blacklisted in 1951 by the House of Un-American Activities, left Boesman and Lena as a last testament of his artistry and political commitment. Berry's work in theater began early. In 1946, in his early 20s, Berry was a touring director for both Richard Wright's productions of Native Son and How Deep are the Roots, which was the first production to ever feature a white woman kissing a black man in America. Fugard describes Berry as "a man who had a burning sense of injustice." This...
Luckily, Martha Stewart isn't purely about nostalgia for Sally Homemaker of the '50s. Note her corps of gardeners and army of staffers, and it quickly becomes apparent that she is selling nostalgia for the decadent '20s, or perhaps the Gilded Age of innocence. The miracle is, unlike the J. Peterson catalogue, Martha sells it for the price of a mass-produced appliance. She flawlessly melds nostalgia for the do-it-yourself mom of the Cold War--who single-handedly built and stocked a bomb shelter with attractive canned goods--with nostalgia for the Great Gatsby mansions of an earlier...
Martha's brilliant because she says you can buy opulence at Kmart, thus allowing your sensible '50s wallet to purchase the decadence of the roaring '20s. And, at that price, who wouldn...
...drug was euphorically powerful, convincing us that we were capable of anything. And in many ways we were. We were all young, promising, on the verge of exciting careers in glamorous fields. There was Trey, an American magazine writer, like myself, in his 20s; Hiroko, a Japanese woman in her 30s who worked for a Tokyo woman's magazine; Delphine, an aspiring French model and Miki, an A. and R. man for a Japanese record label. When we would sit down together in my Nishi Azabu apartment to smoke the drug, our talk turned to grandiose plans and sure-fire...
...have to look to the third and fourth quarters of this year. That's when all the downsizing and cost-cutting and slashing of excess inventory that companies have been doing this winter and spring should start to pay off. If oil prices come down to the mid-20s, which I think they will, then companies are going to start to return to profitability. They've been doing all the right things in terms of cutting costs, and if the Fed continues to do its role, it's going to start to show up in consumer confidence...