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PUNKED, AGAIN Call it a '70s revival: black nail polish seems to be back in force--witness the popularity of Chanel's new Black Satin, a best seller for fall...
...what about love?” It’s almost like he misunderstood that mash-ups are supposed to include sampled snippets of songs and not sampled snipped of bad love lyrics. This could result from the fact that he is still stuck in the ’70s...
...exodus has forced many universities to fast-track underqualified teachers to full professorship, or simply to suspend entire departments. This means Iraq's students are getting a poor education, with disastrous consequences for the country's future. It's hard to believe now, but in the 1960s and '70s, Iraq's academia was the envy of the Arab world. Now, it lies in tatters...
...said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time is running out. Having seen Japan recover from...
...groan with luscious young women, eventually turns to more esoteric issues. Like, what to do with a dangling eyeball that's been yanked from its socket? You might guess: push it back in. But Hostel says: snip it off. (The wound bleeds bisque.) A TIME movie critic in the '70s coined the word "carnography" to describe splatter films that were the violent equivalent of pornography. In Hostel or Saw, the big body-piercing torture scenes are the come shots. Hope the kids like...