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...absolutely taken aback. I would have expected it in America or Hong Kong, not Istanbul," Burke says. "We don't have anything like it in London, Paris or Milan." Yet it is fitting that what is bound to become the prototype for a new era of shopping malls should be in the city that invented the concept. After all, the Grand Bazaar, the world's first covered market, has been trading since before Columbus landed in the Americas and contains some 4,000 shops, banks, cafés, a police station and a post office...
...Sept. 25, 2006 episode of The Daily Show as one of those moments. After a montage of pundits reacting indignantly to an angry interview President Bill Clinton had given on Fox News, Stewart singled out a woman who said, “I’m really taken aback, that [Clinton] lost it.”The camera cut to Stewart, who said, “Really? Who the fuck are you?!”“When you can pull it off, that’s when pop culture is…inspirational and healthy and wonderful...
...finish,” and explicitly terming Wallace’s balanced inquisitions a “hit job” (perhaps the most graphic two-word “job” ever performed on the former president). Fox chief Roger Ailes was, like most decent Americans, taken aback by Clinton’s “wild overreaction.” Ailes took a charitable view of the incident, characterizing it as “an assault on all journalists.” Yes, Clinton had wiles enough to center his attack on Fox News, striking...
...instinctively replied, “no.” My acquaintance scoffed, as if to alert me to the social superiority of his school to mine, inquiring, “When was the last time someone actually died at a party?” Unsurprisingly, I was taken aback: he was using number of deaths by alcohol poisoning as an indicator of the quality of the social scene on his campus...
...California to teach and wait for the muse to return. But his mind remains very focused on his homeland. "Whenever I get visitors from Kenya, they think I want to ask them large questions about politics and so on," he says with a grin. "They are always taken aback when I question them about simple things. I want to know about the new songs, new words, what are the roads like, what is the dust like? Everyday things." Because it's the simple things, the everyday things, that really bring a story to life...